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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
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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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