Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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