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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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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
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