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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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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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