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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.
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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In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.
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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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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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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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