Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMusic is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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