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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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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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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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
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Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable we do not expect him to be above it.
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
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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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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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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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