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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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In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Example has far more followers than reason.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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