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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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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C. N. Bovee
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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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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.
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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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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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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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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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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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