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Few minds wear out more rust out.
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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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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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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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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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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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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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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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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 grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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