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Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.: Horace Binney
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.: Author Unknown
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.: Henry Tuckerman
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.: Luther
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.: Hazrat Inayat Khan
All the sounds of the earth are like music.: Oscar Hammerstein II
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.: Jonathan Edwards
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

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