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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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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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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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