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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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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
Christian Nestell Bovee
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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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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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
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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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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
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