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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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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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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.
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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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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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