CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES III

American author (1820-1904)

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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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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Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.

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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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To become the master of his circumstances--to override them, as the stately ship overrides the waves, stormy or smooth, as her obedient element--not 'whelmed and lost in them--this is the aim and effort of every loftier nature.

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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.

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Love of children is the homage of the heart to unsullied purity. Indeed, children are the bright side of life. From our sins and sorrows, how refreshing is it to turn to their artless ways and purer joys! Would that they could all be so educated, as not, in their after-years, to darken life by their offenses!

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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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Courage and timidity are the accompaniments of opposite tendencies of thought. The brave think only of the blows they will strike; the timid of those they may receive.

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

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A perfect work destroys the critic's art.

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

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Few minds wear out; more rust out.

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What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable.

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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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In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature has set none.

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The least of the virtues adds to the perfection of the character. It is with the finest characters as it is with the finest woods and marbles--the polishing hand is still needed to bring out the veins of beauty and of grace.

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

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