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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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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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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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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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