"The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music."
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"Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy."
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"... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection."
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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison."
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"To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops."
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"I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it."
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"The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open."
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"I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn."
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"Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man."
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"As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life."
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"I find no intellect comparable to my own"
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"Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous."
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"After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise."
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"The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose."
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"The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause."
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"Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily."
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"The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed."
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"Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men."
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"there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path."
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"I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening."
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