When all else is lost, the future still remains.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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