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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without
To produce music is also in a sense to produce children
But hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.
The still, sad music of humanity.
Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
Not Love, not War
When his veering gait
And every motion of his starry train
Seem governed by a strain
Of music, audible to him alone.
And every motion of his starry train
Seem governed by a strain
Of music, audible to him alone.
The Triad
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Music is the universal language of mankind... poetry their universal pastime and delight.
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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