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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
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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 grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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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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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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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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