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• Winter is the night of vegetation.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Winter, Night, Vegetation

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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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  Mistake, Sound, Literature

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• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

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  Names, Self, Ego

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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  Passion, Fire, Excess

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

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  Goodness, Cheerfulness

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• Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

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  Self, Names, Consciousness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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

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  May, Rich, Economy

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• Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

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  Pain, Light, Giving

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

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• Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

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  Men, Dreamer, Half

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• Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

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  Men, Trying, Weakness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

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  Apples, Expectations, Way

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.142

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• Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

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  Evil, Abuse, Satire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

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• There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

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  Brother, Long, Easy

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• New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

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  Travel, Sight, Cities

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.177

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• Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

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  Silence, Needs, Said

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• We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

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  Evening, Action, Muse

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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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  Life, Reality, Relief

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• Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

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  Luxury, Slavery

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.153

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• Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

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  Money, Men, Long

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• The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

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  Beauty, Eye, Half

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• It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.

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  Retirement, Long, Doe

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• How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

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  Men, Tunnels, Light

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.13

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• Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

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  Educational, Common Sense, Commodity

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• Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

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  Men, Giving, Example

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• The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

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  Mind, Lightning, Brilliant

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