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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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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C. N. Bovee
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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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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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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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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