Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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