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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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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.
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Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Few minds wear out more rust out.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
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