A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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