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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Friendship Virtue Weakness
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Bold Man Ourselves Past
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Character Difference Man Nature
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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing

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