A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen all else is lost, the future still remains.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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 our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Words 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.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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