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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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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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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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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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