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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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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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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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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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