CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES II

American author (1820-1904)


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Properly, eccentricity is not so much a component of genius, as it is a consequence of the habits of men of genius. The reputation for genius is usually acquired by severe and protracted intellectual labor. This occasions repeated reactions from an extreme tension to an extreme relaxation of spirits--the transitions expressing themselves in sharp and abrupt impulses.

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Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


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We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

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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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It is not meet that the strong, free limbs of manhood should be fettered by the silken threads of ceremony.

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

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It requires a great genius to flatter successfully a great personage. The common arts of adulation are thrown away upon the exalted. They are so accustomed to these that they take little notice.

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If one could only tear down his character, as old buildings are torn down, and build it up anew, as these are rebuilt! And so, in effect, it can be. A noble property of character is, that it is susceptible of improvement.

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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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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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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

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Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

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Courage ennobles manhood; cowardice degrades it.

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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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The more common method of getting rid of an evil, is to merge it in a greater. Thus, if one suffers a loss of half his fortune at play, he overcomes his mortification by--losing the other half. The most ingenious expedient of this kind, was that of the indigent gentleman of rank, who married his washerwoman to get rid of her bill against him.

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

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Singularity in dress argues eccentricity of character. A queer cut of the coat represents a crotchet in the brain.

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Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants--forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

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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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