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• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
• If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
• When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces,…
• Music is love searching for a word.
• Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.
• But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in…
• Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am…
• I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a…
• If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a…
• Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the…
• Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and…
• Music is love in search of a word.

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