Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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 most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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