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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
Explore more quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
"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."
"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."
"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
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