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• Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
• Few minds wear out; more rust out. --Christian Nestell Bovee
• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards.
  Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. -- Christian Nestell Bovee...
• There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
  -- Christian Nestell Bovee...
• Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.
  -- C Nestell Bovee, _Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies_ (1857)...
• One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
  He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him. -- Christian Nestell Bovee...
• A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.
  -- John Christian Bovee...
• Christian life consists of faith and charity. -- Martin Luthe
• It is a secret known to but a few, yet no small use in the conduct of life
  hat if you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him....