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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.
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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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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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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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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.
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