CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES IV

American author (1820-1904)

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

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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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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, Doubt (called "the father of inventions" by Galileo), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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

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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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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

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

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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.

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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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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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