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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
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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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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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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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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