It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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