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Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
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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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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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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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.
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