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• The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Self, Worst, Delusion

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• The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Criticism, Attention, Excellent

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• In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, School, Two

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• The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Justice, Criticism, Balance

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• The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cunning, Boast

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• Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fighting, Imagination, Enemy

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• The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Desire, Want, Natural

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.190

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• When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mean, Desire, Pay

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• Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Ambitious, Kingdoms

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• We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude, Favors

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• To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Errors, Data, World

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• I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Knowing, Evil, Desire

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• What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cutting, Men, Yawning

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• It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Society, Ingredients, Company

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• We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Desire, Literature

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• We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Pain, Real

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• A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Justice, Desire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.44

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• In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Political, Target, Politics

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.95

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• Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

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  Motivational, Fear, Inspiration

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• Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude, Pain, Spring

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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• The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

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  Excellence, Pursuit, Distinction

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• Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hunting, Animal, Blood

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• Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Sadness, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.166

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• What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Taken, Loss, Greatness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.29

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• God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Eye, World, Miserable

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