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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
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C. N. Bovee
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
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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.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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