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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud

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