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• Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hero, Elements, Development

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• The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Differences, Quarrels, Over It

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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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• Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

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  Evil, Abuse, Satire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

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• The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.

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  Death, Loss, Heaven

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• Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

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  Leadership, Mistake, Character

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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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• 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 safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

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  Believe, Writing, Men

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

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

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  Iron, Negativity, Feelings

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

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• To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

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  Beautiful, Appreciation, Profound

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.123

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• A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

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  Degrees, Next, Firsts

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.169

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• To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

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  Generations, Way, Passing

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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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• All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

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  Thinking, Thrones, Empires

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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  Courage, Brave, Desperate

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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.

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  Strong, Party, Yield

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• Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

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  Fear, Imagination, Worry

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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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• 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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