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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.
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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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