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 BOVEETo be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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