Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations.George Santayana
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
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It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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