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“My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!”

Quote by May Sarton

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American poet, born on May 3, 1912, and died on July 16, 1995. Known for her profound psychological insights and delicate portrayals of natural landscapes, May Sarton's poetry has had a significant impact on contemporary poetry, earning her numerous literary awards. more

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“I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.”

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“When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.”

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Book:Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

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“Danger for danger's sake is senseless.”

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“Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.”

States Loss Tears Sorrow Finals Manifest Trusted Affliction Concealed

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“The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.”

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Source: The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed

“The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.”

Littles Moments Pain Pleasure Existence Particular Fascinating Devoted Triumphant

Book:Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.”

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“The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.”

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“Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)

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“The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.”

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