It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe 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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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