"The finest music in the room is that……" — James Lane Allen
"The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear."
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16 Quotes by James Lane Allen
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise…
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As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you;…
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You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
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You cannot travel within and stand still without.
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Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create…
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We do not attract what we want, But what we are.
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The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge…
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Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
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Adversity does not build character,it reveals it
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I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall…
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The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.
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