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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Exercise, Mind, Overcoming

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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Writing, Rejection, Suffering

"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 68), 1862.

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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Iron, Negativity, Feelings

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

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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

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Heart, Pockets, Riches

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Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.

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Character, Sleep, Political

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.93

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What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

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Taken, Loss, Greatness

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.29

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God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

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Eye, World, Miserable

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Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

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Holiday, Play, Effort

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

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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

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Evil, Doe, Belief

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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

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Want, Bread, Falstaff

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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

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Humanity, Rope, Degradation

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.118

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Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

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Beautiful, Women, Handsome

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In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.

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Writing, Mean, Thinking

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.167

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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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Party, Passion, Class

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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

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Strength, Confidence, Strong

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

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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

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Gratitude, Evil, Lessons

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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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Mistake, Character, Errors

"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

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Men, Vices, Deceit

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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

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Running, Opposites, Quality

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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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Love, Littles, Reason

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.42

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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

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Care, Guests, Masters

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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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Beautiful, Pride, Roots

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.106

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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

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Book, Development, Want

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

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One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.

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Money, Appreciate, Ability

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.55

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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Age, Demand, Revision

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

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Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
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