CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES III

American author (1820-1904)

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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

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

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Tomorrow thinks not of the cares of today.

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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.

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We should be sure, when we rebuke a want of charity, to do it with charity.

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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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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

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

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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 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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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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Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

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Courage ennobles manhood; cowardice degrades it.

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We wince under little pains, but nature in us, through the excitement attendant upon them, braces us to endure with fortitude greater agonies.

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The rules of etiquette were established mostly by women, are chiefly for the benefit of women, and are mainly suited only to the nature of women; and a too punctilious observance of them by a man, goes to show that over-refinement has nearly unsexed him.

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