CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES VI

American author (1820-1904)

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

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A perfect work destroys the critic's art.

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A book ... should resemble a tranquil lake, in whose glassy surface the varied wonders of the earth and sky are faithfully imaged.

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

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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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The perfection of dress lies in the union of three requisites: in its being comfortable, inexpensive, and in good taste. It should not be so far removed from the prevailing mode as to excite attention, nor yet so far within the fashion as to imply a weak submission to it.

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The gayest young men make the gravest old men.

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Next to living with honor is to die with honor.

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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 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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives it its sweetness: it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

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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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A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

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Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants--forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

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Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

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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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As well might a flower complain of the bee which its sweetness attracts, as a pretty girl of being gazed at when she goes abroad. But the complaint is seldom made in earnest.

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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

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