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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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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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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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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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