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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable we do not expect him to be above it.
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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations.
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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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