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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
New York
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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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