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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 peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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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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Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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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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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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