A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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