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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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C. N. Bovee
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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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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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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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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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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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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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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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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 seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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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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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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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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