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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the

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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Many people die with their music still in them.&#

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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

The horses paw and prance and neigh, Fillies

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The horses paw and prance and neigh,
Fillies and colts like kittens play,
And dance and toss their rippled manes
Shining and soft as silken skeins;...

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole

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Lord, bid war's trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like

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The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as

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Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

The morning cup o

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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Where we love is home, Home that our feet may

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Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Truth is the breath of life to human society.

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Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never r

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that

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Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

The foliage has been losing its freshness through

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The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

In order to know whether a human being is young o

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In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes

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Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through

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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

My experience with public libraries is that the f

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My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare

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Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

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