A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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