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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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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Few minds wear out more rust out.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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.
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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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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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