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• The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Justice, Criticism, Balance

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• When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mean, Desire, Pay

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• The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Errors, Support, Bases

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• It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

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  Tree, Degrees, May

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.179

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• Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

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  War, Essence, Details

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• In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strong, Party, Yield

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• The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Use, Littles, Too Much

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• A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

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  Strong, Purpose, Facts

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• Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

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  Independent, Sometimes, Reason

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

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• We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

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  Office, Tendencies, Wit

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• Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Dishes, Wit, Whole

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.209

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• The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

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  Women, Addresses, Compliment

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• The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

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  Tears, Departure, Noise

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

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

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  Home, Dominion, Vain

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

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• It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Democracy, Favors

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

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  Soul, Triumph, Lows

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Skulls, Looks

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Character, Tape, Noses

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

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

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  Bows, Ceremony

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