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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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
bovee
C. N. Bovee
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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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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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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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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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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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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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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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