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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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