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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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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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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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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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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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