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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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Running, Simplicity, Culture

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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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Work, Influence, Whole Life

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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

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Work, Dreamer, Realization

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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

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Wall, Race, Feelings

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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

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Giving, Needs, Charity

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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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Tombstone, Few Words, Dignity

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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

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Heart, Riches, Devotion

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

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Character, Reflection, Men

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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

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Retreat, Advantage, Wit

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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

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Anticipation, Trouble

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

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Inspiration, Enthusiasm For Life, Enthusiasm

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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

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Gay, Rose, Feelings

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

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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

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Wise, Men, Law

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

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Courage, Desperate, Cowardice

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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

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Life, Activity

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

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Men, Musical, Deceit

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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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Heart, Long, Romance

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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

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Influence, Relation, Circumstances

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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

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Friendship, Weakness, Virtue

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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

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Men, People, Kind

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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

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Powerful, Maturity, Empires

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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

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Country, Home, World

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.164

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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

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Gratitude, Melancholy, Worst

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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

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Warrior, Greatness, Earthquakes

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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

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Excuse

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

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Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
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