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Douglas Meador

Great music is a flame that lights the tapers of man's noblest thoughts and drives shadows from the corridors of his soul.

Man | Music | Soul | Wisdom |

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Douglas Meador

A way to weigh words is to keep them in the heart until they are gentle and until the lips will speak them softly.

Heart | Will | Wisdom | Words |

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Felix Mendelssohn, fully Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Music | Wisdom | Words |

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Philo, aka Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew NULL

Geometry gives us the sense of equality produced by proportion. It also heals by means of fine music all that is harsh and inharmonious or discordant in the soul, under the influence of rhythm, meter and melody.

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Margaret Percival

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister’s aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms; in the still place of graves.

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John Rossel

Music is the heartbeat of the universe. It reaches into the outer ramparts of eternity where time and space are nonexistent; it touches the stars and is reflected in the beauty of the galaxy. It is exemplified in the mathematical precision found in the largest star and the tiniest molecule. Music is emotional. It touches the heart and creates a response within the listener without his being aware of the technique.

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Francis Quarles

Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool as speech is the greatest trial of a wise man. If thou wouldst be known as wise, let thy words show thee so; if thou doubt thy words, let thy silence feign thee so. It is not a greater point of wisdom to discover knowledge than to hide ignorance.

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Francis Quarles

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Enough | Wisdom | Words |

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Claude A. Ries

A saintly colored woman who was greatly loved in her community was asked how she made and kept so many friends. She replied, "I stop and taste my words before I let them pass my teeth."

Taste | Wisdom | Woman | Words |

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Dominique Ricard

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

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Clara Kathleen Rogers

Singing is the highest expression of music because it is the most direct expression of the emotions of the soul.

Emotions | Music | Soul | Wisdom |

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Russell Schweikart, fully Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart aka Schweikart

[The earth] is so small and so fragile and such a precious little spot in that universe that you can block it out with your thumb, and you realize that on that small spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you - all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love.

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Friedrich Schelling, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von

Architecture is music in space as it were a frozen music.

Music | Space | Wisdom |

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Frederic Saunders

Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

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Ravi Shankar, born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, aka Pandit

Our tradition teaches us that sound is God - Nada Brahma. The highest aim of our music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects.

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Tao Ho

Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limit of time.

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