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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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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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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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