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/ page 1165 of 1205 /The ear is the avenue to the heart.
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Better is the enemy of good.
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Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
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There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
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Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
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Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
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The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
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Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
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Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.
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From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
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We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
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As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
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One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.
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Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.
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I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
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The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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