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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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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
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Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable we do not expect him to be above it.
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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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