What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHope is the best part of our riches.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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.
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