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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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