Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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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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