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