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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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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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 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.
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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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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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