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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

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Motivational, Fear, Inspiration

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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

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Political, Target, Politics

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.95

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

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Children, Care, Felicity

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

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Happiness, Happy, Joy

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

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Nature, Desire, Literature

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To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

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Nature, Journey, Garden

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

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Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

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Happiness, Insecure, Age

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.84

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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

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Book, Style, Add

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

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Feelings, News, World

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

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It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

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Believe, Writing, Men

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

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Degrees, Next, Firsts

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.169

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Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.

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Fighting, Imagination, Enemy

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The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

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Differences, Quarrels, Over It

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

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Five Senses, Importance, Duty

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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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Knowing, Evil, Desire

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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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Men, Numbers, Facts

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None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

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Love, Heart, Eye

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

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Success, Mind, Gimlets

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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

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Men, Portraits, Faces

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A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

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Men, Justice, Desire

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.44

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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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Hunting, Animal, Blood

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I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

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Art, Two, Answers

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

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Long, Tables, Companionship

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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

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Miracle, Christ, Stills

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Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
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