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“Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.”

Art Dies Literature Memories Effort Air Color Broken Cease Painter Fades Canvas Fragments Marble Pedestal Oratory Art Music

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.”

Kind Soul Effort Greatness Tears Broken Limits All Kinds Sublime Bondage Strength Of Will Constrain

Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again.”

Ifs Knows World Needs May Loss Effort Broken Picks Instruments Inspired Convinced Extras Spite Be Inspired Begin Again Your Loss

Author:Steve Goodier

“There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.”

Made Effort Steps Broken Blow Steady Panic Files Indication

Book:From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of the Civil War in America

Source: From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of the Civil War in America

“I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

Reason Lasts Past Lying Force Causes Effort Gone Clear Happened Effects Events Broken One Day Horse Breaths Careful Snow Fixed Sat Wet Yards Fragments Fixing Looking Down

Author:Robin Hobb