The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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 heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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