We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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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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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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