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• Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

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  Men, Good Man, Overcoming

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• What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

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  Fear, Law, Instance

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• Few minds wear out; more rust out.

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  Thinking, Curiosity, Mind

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• Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

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  Character, Giving, Proud

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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

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  Ideas, Progress, Matter

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• Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

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  Balls, Should, Cannons

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.157

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• Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

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  Population, World, Existence

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• Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

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  Flirting, Inspire, Transport

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• A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

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  Women, Rocks, Charity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.215

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• Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

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  Art, Prayer, Excellence

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• Hope is the best part of our riches.

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  Hope, Riches

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

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• Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

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  Winter, Men, Vanity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.184

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• A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

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  Mother, Funny Inspirational, Funny Life

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• An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

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  Illusion

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• The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

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  Character, Men, Expression

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.7

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• It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

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  Adventure, Men, Adventurer

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

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• By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

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  Humor, Water, Firsts

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• The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

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  Self, Morbid, Cures

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

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  Mother, Children, Heart

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• There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

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  Character, Skins, Weakness

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• None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

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  Love, Heart, Eye

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

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• We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

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  Love, Littles, Reason

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.42

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• Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

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  Success, Mind, Gimlets

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• Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

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  Leadership, Fall, Play

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.10

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• Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

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  Hero, Heart, Persistence

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