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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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