Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGreat warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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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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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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