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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable we do not expect him to be above it.
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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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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.
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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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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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