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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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