CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE QUOTES V

American author (1820-1904)

Next to living with honor is to die with honor.

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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

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A book ... should resemble a tranquil lake, in whose glassy surface the varied wonders of the earth and sky are faithfully imaged.

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All greatness in performance rests upon a basis of details. A knowledge of what is general to a subject may suffice for the merely learned man, but a thorough knowledge of details is necessary to form the adept.

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Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

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

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Courage and timidity are the accompaniments of opposite tendencies of thought. The brave think only of the blows they will strike; the timid of those they may receive.

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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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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

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As well might a flower complain of the bee which its sweetness attracts, as a pretty girl of being gazed at when she goes abroad. But the complaint is seldom made in earnest.

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I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

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It requires a great genius to flatter successfully a great personage. The common arts of adulation are thrown away upon the exalted. They are so accustomed to these that they take little notice.

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There will always be romance in the world, so long as there are young hearts in it.

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attributed, Day's Collacon


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.

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Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It is the inspiration of everything great.

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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

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