CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES VI

American author (1820-1904)

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

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For every great evil, apparently irremediable, there is reserved, it is probable, somewhere in the design of Providence, an effectual remedy.

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To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

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Hatreds are the chimneys of the mind, serving to carry off the smoke of its pestilent humors.

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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

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A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

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Fame: A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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All greatness in performance rests upon a basis of details. A knowledge of what is general to a subject may suffice for the merely learned man, but a thorough knowledge of details is necessary to form the adept.

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The poor man finds happiness in economy; the rich man, misery.

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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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There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

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Habits influence the character pretty much as undercurrents influence a vessel, and whether they speed us on the way of our wishes, or retard our progress, their influence is not the less important because imperceptible.

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To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

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Kindness: A language which the dumb can speak, and the deaf can understand.

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Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws.

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Genius makes its observations in short hand; talent writes them out at length.

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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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Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

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