CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES II

American author (1820-1904)

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

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It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

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In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

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What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

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

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Competition, which is said to be "the life of trade," when pushed too far, is no less the death of it--and of the soul.

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We serve the devil in our youth, God in our old age--thinking if we journey towards hell while our limbs are sound, we can turn when they fail us, and get to heaven on crutches.

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When Fortune frowns upon her worthy wooer, it is still permitted him to think how pleasant it will be erewhile to bask in her smiles.

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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of life: the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

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Few minds wear out; more rust out.

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It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

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

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We are far more the creatures of our ideas than of our circumstances.

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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

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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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It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

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