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• At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sarcasm, Mind, Irony

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

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• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Practice, Different

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• Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

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  Men, Evil, Action

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

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• He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Pushing, Invisible, Graves

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• It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Art, Charm

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• One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.

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  Money, Appreciate, Ability

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.55

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• Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

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  Age, Demand, Revision

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

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• Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.

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  Party, Passion, Class

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• A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Portraits, Faces

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• All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Good Writing

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• Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Flower, Sun

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

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• We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.

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  Done, May, Littles

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99

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• The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.

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  Errors, Support, Bases

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• However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain it. One who has written a good book, is expected on all occasions to "talk like a book." Or, if one has achieved an act of heroism, he is expected to perform acts of heroism for the edification of all who approach him. There are people who can never believe they see a lion unless they hear him roar.

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  Believe, Book, Mean

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• Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

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  Fate, Hawks, Resentment

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• The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

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  Animal, Men, Stones

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• The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

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  Men, Vices, Deceit

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• A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

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  Art, Style, Peculiar

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.22

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• An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

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  Ambition, Progress, Aim

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• Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

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  Ambition, Keys, Voice

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• It is easier to die bravely than to live so.

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  Courage, Easier, Dies

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.28

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• Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

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  Beauty, Laughing, Distinction

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• No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

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  Criticism, Deserve

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• A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

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  Disappointment, Party, Earth

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• Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

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  Five Senses, Importance, Duty

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