A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to 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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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 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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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