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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
bovee
C. N. Bovee
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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
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