CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES V

American author (1820-1904)

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

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

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

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I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

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

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The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.

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

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.

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

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

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