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In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

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Strong, Party, Yield

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The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

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Use, Littles, Too Much

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A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

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Strong, Purpose, Facts

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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

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Independent, Sometimes, Reason

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

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Office, Tendencies, Wit

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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

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Dishes, Wit, Whole

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.209

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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

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Women, Addresses, Compliment

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Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

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Respect, Men, Forfeit

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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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Errors, Support, Bases

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It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

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Causes, Done, May

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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

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Inspirational, Saint, Christian Living

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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Adversity, Doe, Literature

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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

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Society, Ingredients, Company

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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

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Beautiful, Appreciation, Profound

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.123

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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

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Stars, Dark, Heaven

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It is easier to die bravely than to live so.

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Courage, Easier, Dies

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.28

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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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Criticism, Attention, Excellent

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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

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Criticism, Deserve

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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

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Light, Two, Lamps

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.16

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He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

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Pushing, Invisible, Graves

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

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Men, Thinking, Agents

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The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

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Ideas, Age, Events

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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Courage, Brave, Desperate

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

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Fear, Imagination, Worry

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

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Generations, Way, Passing

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Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
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