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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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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Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
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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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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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