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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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C. N. Bovee
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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