CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES VII

American author (1820-1904)

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

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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

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Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

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There are seasons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

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Few marry their first loves; fewer ought to. The love of the very young is like the love of children for sweetmeats: they usually outgrow it.

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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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It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of the mind. You pink your adversary and he is forthwith dead: and then you deserve to be hung for it.

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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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In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

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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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Our ideas ... must first acquire a certain strength, before we can proceed efficiently to act upon them. They have their periods of immaturity and maturity. First comes the germ of the idea; then its growth; then an enlargement of that growth; then an expansion of that enlargement; until finally the idea takes its ultimate form as a picture, a book, or a revolution.

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We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

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The business of the historian is with the truth of things, but he is too much under temptation to make his history interesting, to be always able to reject a fine story.

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If necessity is the mother of invention, it is no less the mother of crime; eternal justice is one thing, eternal love of bread and butter and other good things another; where it is a necessity of our nature to have, it is a weakness of our being to get.

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attributed, Day's Collacon


We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

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Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.

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Upon marrying, we need most to pray for one of two things in our partners--the love that blinds, or the good-nature that excuses.

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