"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.“
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."
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"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."
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-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
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"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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