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Formerly when great fortunes w...

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The beauty seen is partly in h...

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Melancholy sees the worst of t...

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

It is some compensation for gr...

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Pleasure and pain spring not s...

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Better freedom with a crust, t...

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

In general, inquiry ceases whe...

In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

All power is indeed weak compa...

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

New situations inspire new tho...

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

It is curious to what a degree...

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Every war involves a greater o...

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

In a contest with a weaker par...

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The use we make of our fortune...

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

A strong will deals with the h...

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Wit, like poetry, is insuscept...

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Wit never appears to greater a...

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

We take life too seriously: th...

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

Wit is better as a seasoning t...

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

It is indeed a misfortune for ...

It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

Christian Nevell Bovee 398 quotes

The finest compliment that can...

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

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