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“No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.”

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee was an American writer, philosopher, and theologian known for his works in moral philosophy, religion, and literary criticism. more

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“The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.”

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“The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Justice, not the majority, should rule.”

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“Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.”

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“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.”

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“The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.”

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Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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“There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.”

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“Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.”

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“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.”

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Book:Summaries of Thought

Source: Summaries of Thought