"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."
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Source: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
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