Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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