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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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
New York
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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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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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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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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