Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon 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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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