"Let us not look east and west for……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. — Ludwig van Beethoven
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