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• Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Next, Faith In God, Labor

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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• In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Responsibility, Men, Important

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.100

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• The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Soul, Coffins, Body

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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• Books are embalmed minds.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Mind

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• Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Prejudice, May, Fancy

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.106

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• There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Brother, Long, Easy

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• Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Witty, Able

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• Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Pain, Light, Giving

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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• Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Humility, Would Be, World

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• Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Causes, Matrimony, Enterprising

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.49

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• The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Trouble, Earnest

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• New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Travel, Sight, Cities

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.177

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• If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Writing, Distinction

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• Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Rich, Week

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.30

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• It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Trying, Use

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

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• Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Weapons, Causes, Logic

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• Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sorrow, Misery, Sorrowful

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

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• Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Age, Weakness, Should

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• The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

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  Laziness, May, Disease

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• Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Truth, Honesty, People

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• The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Eye, Soul

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• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Literature, Courtesy

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• Talk less about the years to come,
  Live, love labor more today.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Years, Today, Live Love

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• It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sex, Women, Heart

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• A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Flower, Feelings, Letters

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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