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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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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C. N. Bovee
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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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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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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
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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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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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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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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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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
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