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Our first and last love is self-love.
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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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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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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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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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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