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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
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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Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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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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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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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 are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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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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