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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

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Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

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All the sounds of the earth are like music.

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Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.

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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.

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Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

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