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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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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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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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