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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

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

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Political, Target, Politics

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

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Desire, Literature

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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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Degrees, Next, Firsts

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

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• The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

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  Excellence, Pursuit, Distinction

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• A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Portraits, Faces

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Motivational, Fear, Inspiration

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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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hunting, Animal, Blood

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• Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Devotion, Faculty, Earnestness

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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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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• 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Style, Add

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

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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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Insecure, Age

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

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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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, News, World

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

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Care, Felicity

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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 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Justice, Desire

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

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• We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Pain, Real

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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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• Justice, not the majority, should rule.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Justice, Majority, Should

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Five Senses, Importance, Duty

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• Character is very much a matter of health.

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  Character, Matter

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• The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Anxiety, Other Half, Poverty

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.139

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• The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Juice, Matter

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.17

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Differences, Quarrels, Over It

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