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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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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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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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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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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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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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