Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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