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:: 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Simplicity]
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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Smile]
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Taste]
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Virtue]
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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Virtue]
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Passion]
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Passion]
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Planning]
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Progress]
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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Quotations]
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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.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Rivalry]
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Joy]
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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Kindness]
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Kisses and Kissing]
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