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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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C. N. Bovee
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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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The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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