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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
bovee
C. N. Bovee
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Writing
Something
Good
Unexpressed

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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.
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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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