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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of 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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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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