Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than the instinct of animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.Joseph Addison
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
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Love is a second life it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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