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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
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New York City
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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.
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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
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The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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