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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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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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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
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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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