Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMusic is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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