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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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
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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
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Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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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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