A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEEnthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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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.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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