CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES VI

American author (1820-1904)

We have two lessons to teach an enemy who despises us--to value himself less highly, and us more worthily.

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Singularity in dress argues eccentricity of character. A queer cut of the coat represents a crotchet in the brain.

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

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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

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It is not meet that the strong, free limbs of manhood should be fettered by the silken threads of ceremony.

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

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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

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

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

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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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

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It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

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

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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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