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

Christian Nestell Bovee
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Christian Nestell Bovee
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

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

Christian Nestell Bovee
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

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We should be sure, when we rebuke a want of charity, to do it with charity.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length.

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

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

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Books are embalmed minds; they make the great of other days our present teachers.

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Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

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

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp.

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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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The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

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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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At all events, the next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.

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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

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

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

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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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There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

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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.

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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.

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