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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
bovee
C. N. Bovee
Transports
Flirting
Transport
Alas
Inspire
Beauty

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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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