Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhat we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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