Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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