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Example has far more followers than reason.

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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
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C. N. Bovee
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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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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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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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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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