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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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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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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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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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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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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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