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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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
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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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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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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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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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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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