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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
Christian Nestell Bovee
It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
Christian Nestell Bovee
The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
Christian Nestell Bovee
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
Christian Nestell Bovee
