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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
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New York City
New York
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C. N. Bovee
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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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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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