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Quote by Samuel Pepys

“However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.”

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Samuel Pepys was a distinguished English diarist, Member of Parliament, and naval administrator. He is widely recognized for his extensive and personal diary, which offers a unique perspective into the Restoration period of English history. Born on February 23, 1633, and passing away on May 26, 1703, his tenure was characterized by his service to the crown and his meticulous documentation of his daily life. more

“The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.”

Knows Mean Ends Common Music Disease Musician

Book:The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Eyery man out of his humor. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster

Source: The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Eyery man out of his humor. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster

“As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.”

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Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”

Ifs Men Art Philosophy Science Music Learning Painting Genius Husband Art Is Ill Architecture Jealous Mistress Providers Bad Husband

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.”

Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“Happiness is a sort of action.”

Action Happiness

Author:Aristotle

“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.”

Happiness Pleasure Illusion

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.”

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Book:South Wind

Source: South Wind

“Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.”

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