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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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• Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, Religion, Matter

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Journey

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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 extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Anxiety, Other Half, Poverty

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

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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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• The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Past, Emotion

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Office, Tendencies, Wit

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• If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Virtue, Vicious, Virtuous

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• When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tired, Thinking, Pleasure

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.86

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Yield, Half, Defeat

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• The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Imperfection, Criticism, Finals

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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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Independent, Sometimes, Reason

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

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• We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hunger And Poverty, World, Crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99

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• He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, News, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

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• Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Development, Want

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.17

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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 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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• Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Delight, Mortals

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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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• The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Age, Events

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• Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Style, Add

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

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