"The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct……" — Christian Nestell Bovee
"The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it."
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Christian Nestell Bovee
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184 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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