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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Charity Money Stand
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship

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