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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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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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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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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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