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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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C. N. Bovee
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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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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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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
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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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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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