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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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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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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Few minds wear out more rust out.
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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