When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees 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 great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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