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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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
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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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