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Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music
Music is the shorthand of emotion
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe
Music revives the recollections it would appease
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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