Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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