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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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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 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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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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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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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations.
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