Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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