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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

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Beautiful, Nature, Intelligent

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Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

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Hard Work, Temptation, Honest

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

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

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Virtue, Vicious, Virtuous

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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

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Love, Ambition, Successful

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.140

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Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

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Love, Gay, Expression

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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

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Wine, Alcohol, Alcoholism

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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

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Passion, Feelings, Looks

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Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

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Leadership, Fall, Play

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.10

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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

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Humor, Water, Firsts

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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

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Character, Men, Expression

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.7

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A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

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Passion, Mountain, Genuine

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

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Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

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Complaining, Complaints, Pitiful

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What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

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Cutting, Men, Yawning

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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

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Beautiful, Gratitude

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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

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Evil, Way, Poverty

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The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

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Desire, Want, Natural

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.190

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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

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Illusion

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A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

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Disappointment, Party, Earth

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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.

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Beautiful, Sweet, Women

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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

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Soul, Coffins, Body

"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

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Responsibility, Men, Important

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.100

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Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

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Prejudice, May, Fancy

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

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Books are embalmed minds.

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Book, Mind

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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

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Inspirational, Witty, Able

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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

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Next, Faith In God, Labor

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

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Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
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