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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
Unexpressed
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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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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