American - Author | February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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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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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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