"The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue;……" — Bryan Procter
"The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord."
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18 Quotes by Bryan Procter
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I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue…
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The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
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Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
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I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
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I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That…
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Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst…
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The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound,…
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More Discord Quotes
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I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom…
— Christina Aguilera
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
— Joseph Addison
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
— Heraclitus
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live…
— Immanuel Kant
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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
— Khalil Gibran
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
— George Perkins Marsh
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Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them…
— Saint Augustine
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Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only…
— Pope Pius XII
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