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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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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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