Christian Bovee Quotes
U.S. author and lawyer.
(1820 - 1904)
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
[Failure]
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A good thought is a great boon for which God is first to be thanked; next, he who is the first to utter it; and then in a lesser but still a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us.
[Quotations]
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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 ever gives us.
[Mother]
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A panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. - True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatible.
[Action]
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Address makes opportunities; the want of it gives them.
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Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to a few it is slavery.
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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.
[Riches]
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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Bad manners are a species of bad morals; a conscientious man will not offend in that way.
[Manners]
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
[Taste]
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Books are embalmed minds.
[Books]
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Books only partially represent their authors; the writer is always greater than his work.
[Literature]
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Care admitted as a guest, quickly turns to be master.
[Care]
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
[Happiness]
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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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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