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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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