Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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