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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDiscretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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