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 BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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