Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETruth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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 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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