CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES IV

American author (1820-1904)

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

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Perhaps the natural character of a man may be best seen before breakfast. The world is created anew for us every morning, and he is just then reissued, as it were, from the hands of nature, with all his original peculiarities fresh upon him.

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Unmerited compliments are the keenest reproaches.

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

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Courage ennobles manhood; cowardice degrades it.

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A young lady can only look charming at so much per yard. A pretty miss in calico is a lovely woman in silk; and a charming girl in muslin is an angel in satin. At least she thinks so, and who would contradict a lady?

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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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Tomorrow thinks not of the cares of today.

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

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

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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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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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Next to living with honor is to die with honor.

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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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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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Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It is the inspiration of everything great.

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There will always be romance in the world, so long as there are young hearts in it.

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attributed, Day's Collacon