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- 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
- Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
- Mrs. Stowe
- It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
- Ricard
- 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)
- Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.
- Denis Waitley
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