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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?
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
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable we do not expect him to be above it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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Example has far more followers than reason.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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