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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
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New York City
New York
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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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