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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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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
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