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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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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We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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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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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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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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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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