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Christian Nestell Bovee

b: New York, New York., Feb 22, 1820

American. Author. Newspaper editor. Founder of the Athenaeum club of New York

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A great thought is a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked, then he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser but still a considerable degree, the man who is the first to quote it to us.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

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.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

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

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.

Language was given us that we might say pleasant things to each other.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

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

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

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

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.