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Christian Nestell Bovee

"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
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"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
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"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity."
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"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."
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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
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