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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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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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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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