CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES IV

American author (1820-1904)

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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All greatness in performance rests upon a basis of details. A knowledge of what is general to a subject may suffice for the merely learned man, but a thorough knowledge of details is necessary to form the adept.

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He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

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It is rather a mark of vanity not to dress well. The sloven thinks that nature has done enough for him.

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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

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The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

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Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

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Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

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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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For cowards the rode of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.

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A perfect work destroys the critic's art.

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In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets.

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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

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Evils are to be traced to their sources, and struck at there. Like Barbary pirates, they are to be destroyed through the suppression of the state that sends them forth.

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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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We have two lessons to teach an enemy who despises us--to value himself less highly, and us more worthily.

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I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

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