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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our g...more

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain...more

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Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

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Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

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My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It...more

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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

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For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; ...more

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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have bee...more

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It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every...more