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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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 trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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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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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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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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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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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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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Few minds wear out more rust out.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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