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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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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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 most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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