Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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