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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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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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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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