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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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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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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
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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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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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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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