Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes - Page 13

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• Justice, not the majority, should rule.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Justice, Majority, Should

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• Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

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  Ideas, Slavery

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• Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.

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  Moon, Clouds, Merit

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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.

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  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.

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  Opinion, Misanthropy, Evidence

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

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• The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.

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  Choices, Battle, Half

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.26

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• Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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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?

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  Hope, Heaven, Soul

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

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• The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

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  Merit, May, Recognition

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.102

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

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  Heart, Ambition, Division

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

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• To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Garden

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• No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.

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  Character, Chinese, Imitation

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• Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

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  Respect, Men, Forfeit

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• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

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  Happiness, Insecure, Age

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.84

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