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Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length.

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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

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Books are embalmed minds; they make the great of other days our present teachers.

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All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material scepters.

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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee

Born: February 22, 1820
Died: January 18, 1904 (aged 83)
Bio: Christian Nestell Bovee was an epigrammatic New York writer.
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