It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDignity 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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