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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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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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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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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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