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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
bovee
C. N. Bovee
Expands
Pocket
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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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