Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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