A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe 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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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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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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 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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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