Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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