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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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