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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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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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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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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for 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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Few minds wear out more rust out.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.
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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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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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