83 ordspråk av Christian Nevell Bovee
Christian Nevell Bovee
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals
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Books are embalmed minds
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Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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