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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
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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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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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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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
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In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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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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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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