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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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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
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