A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHope is the best part of our riches.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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