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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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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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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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