The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDoubt whom you will, but never yourself.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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