It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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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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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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