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 woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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