What a man knows should find its expression in what he does… - Christian Nestell Bovee

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What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee (February 22, 1820 – January 18, 1904) was an epigrammatic New York writer.

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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood. - Christian Nestell Bovee

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