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“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“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.”
“Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.”
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
“It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered”
“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.”
“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
“Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
“Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.”
