Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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