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• The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Activity

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• Pocas mentes se desgastan; más se oxidan.

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  Thinking, Curiosity, Mind

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• To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

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  Country, Home, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.164

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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

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  Ideas, Progress, Matter

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• Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

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  Balls, Should, Cannons

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.157

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• Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

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  Flirting, Inspire, Transport

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• A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

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  Women, Rocks, Charity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.215

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• Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

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  Population, World, Existence

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• Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

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  Art, Prayer, Excellence

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• Hope is the best part of our riches.

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  Hope, Riches

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.139

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• Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

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  Winter, Men, Vanity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.184

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• A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

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  Mother, Funny Inspirational, Funny Life

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• La melancolía ve lo peor de las cosas, las cosas como pueden ser, y no como son. Mira un rostro hermoso y no ve más que una calavera sonriente.

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  Beautiful, Skulls, Looks

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.52

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• "There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.

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  New York, Men, Thinking

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 84), 1862.

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• There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

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  Men, Beast, Communicate

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 124), 1862.

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• Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

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  Hunting, Animal, Blood

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• Una vez pregunté a un distinguido artista qué lugar concedía al trabajo en el arte. "El trabajo", me dijo, "es el principio, el medio y el fin del arte". Dirigiéndome a otro, le pregunté: "Y usted, ¿qué considera la gran fuerza del arte? "El amor", respondió. En sus dos respuestas sólo encontré una verdad.

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  Art, Two, Answers

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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• Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

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  Long, Tables, Companionship

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• It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

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  Democracy, Favors

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• There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

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  Bows, Ceremony

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• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

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  Men, Practice, Different

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• The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

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  Light, Two, Lamps

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.16

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• The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Women

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• Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Greatness

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" by Louis Klopsch, (p. 133), 1896.

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• La actividad de los jóvenes es como la de los vagones en movimiento: avanzan con ruido y alboroto, y dejan atrás la paz. Los rincones más tranquilos, invadidos por ellos, pierden su quietud a su paso, y sólo la recuperan a su partida.

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  Tears, Departure, Noise

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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