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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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The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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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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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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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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Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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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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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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