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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
[Music]

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
[Music]

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

My philosophy is when in Rome, do like the Romans do - so I'll be looking cool, talking to pretty women and eating ice cream. At least I'm quite good at doing two of those things!

Necessity... the mother of invention.
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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.

No human thing is of serious importance.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from taking place in the state to which he belongs, can possibly escape with his life.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Nobody untrained in geometry may enter my house

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.


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