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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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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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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee
