Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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