The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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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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