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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
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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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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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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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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