It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECourage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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