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CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
American author and lawyer
(1820 - 1904)
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
      - [Circumstance]

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
      - [Self-reliance]

It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.
      - [Evil]

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.
      - [Kisses]

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
      - [Society]

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
      - [Charity]

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.
      - [Commerce]

Justice, not the majority, should rule.
      - [Majority]

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
      - [Kindness]

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
      - [Friendship]

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.
      - [Love]

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
      - [Love]

Luminous quotations atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
      - [Quotations]

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.
      - [Deceit]

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
      - [Children]

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
      - [Matrimony]

Melancholy sees the worst of things,--things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
      - [Melancholy]

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
      - [Deceit]

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
      - [Merit]

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
      - [Mind]

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
      - [Beauty]

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
      - [Books]

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
      - [Motive]

Music is the fourth great material want of our natures,--first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.
      - [Music]

Nations, like individuals are powerful in the degree that they command the sympathies of their neighbors.
      - [Nation]


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