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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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