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- Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
- Mrs. Stowe
- 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
- "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)
- Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.
- W. M. L. Jay
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