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477 Composer Quotes

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Feeble Body Weakens Mind
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Childhood Slep Reason
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Man Right Risk Life
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Weak Foolish Gift Education
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Gratitude Duty Right Expect
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Nations People Youth Older
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature Never Deceives Ourselves
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Course Opposite Custom
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Silence Sadness Image Death
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Remorse Prosperity Bitter Adversity
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood Infinity Combinations Truth
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Great Talent Act Writing
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man Born Free Chains
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Man Natural Authority Fellow
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness Good Account Cook
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Wisdom Find Greater Kindness
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Virtue State War Live
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Insults Arguments Employed Wrong
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Born Speak Life Man
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Aim Music God Soul
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I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Play Notes God Music
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It is the special province of music to move the heart.
Special Music Move Heart
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Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Love Blind Marriage Fail
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Devotional Music God Presence
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Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

Music Purpose God Human spirit
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Music Harmony God Soul
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Obliged Industrious Succeed Equally
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What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Achieved Practice Gift Ability
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God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

God's Gift Worthy Destiny
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Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

Work Reflection Writing Secret
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It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

Pleasure Music Ease Grace
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Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Craftsmanship Inspiration Wind
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In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles.

Study Inspired Ideas God
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If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

Write Beauty Purity
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The only true immortality lies in one's children.

True Immortality Lies Children
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Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

Miracles Work Artist Force
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Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.

Ideas Flow Directly God
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What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other people's feelings?

Historical Biography Peoples' Feelings
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Every something is an echo of nothing

Every Something Echo Nothing
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You can feel an emotion, just don't think that it's so important.

Feel Emotion Think Important
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

Error Failure Adjust Actuality
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I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

Discovered Dwell Emotions Know
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There is nothing we need to do that isn't dangerous.

Nothing Need Dangerous
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

Art Experimental Tries Living
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

Value Judgements Business Curiosity
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Poetry Realize Possess Nothing
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

Business Life Living Art
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All great art is a form of complaint

Great Art Form Complaint
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

Get Yourself Cage Find
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones

Understand People Frightened Ideas
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