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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.
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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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
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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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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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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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