No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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