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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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