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• Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Winter, Men, Vanity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.184

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• A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mother, Funny Inspirational, Funny Life

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• There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wise, Fashion, Harm

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• It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Democracy, Favors

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• There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Beast, Communicate

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 124), 1862.

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• In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Foundation, Too Much, Losing

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.24

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• Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hope, Heaven, Soul

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

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• He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Yield, Half, Defeat

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• It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Home, Dominion, Vain

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

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• The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Tape, Noses

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.82

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• Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  States, Felicity, Stagnation

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.134

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• Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Past, History, Gold

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• The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Opinion, Misanthropy, Evidence

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.54

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• There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Bows, Ceremony

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• Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Journey

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• Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Endless

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• Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Ambition, Division

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.40

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• Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Loss, Sincerity

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

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• "There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  New York, Men, Thinking

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 84), 1862.

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• Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Skulls, Looks

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.52

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• Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

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  Beauty, Delight, Mortals

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• The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strong, Honesty, Greatness

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" by Louis Klopsch, (p. 133), 1896.

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• He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fear

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 244), 1895.

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• There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Soul, Triumph, Lows

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• Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Father, Philosophy, Doubt

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