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Christian Nevell Bovee
 Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. |
| The worst deluded are the self - deluded |
| Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. |
| Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity |
| It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. |
| If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. |
| It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore. |
| Truth like the sun, submits to be obscured; but like the sun, only for a time |
| Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. |
| The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess |
| Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites |
| In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. |
| Imitation belittles |
| Bad taste is a species of bad morals |
| Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. |
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