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Great Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
- Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
- There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
- Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
- The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
- Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
- 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.
- Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
- It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
- Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
- He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing…
- A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it,…
- It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.
- What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself…
- A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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