It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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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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