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“There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.”

Giving Wells May Order Understanding Sound Ears Harmony Notes Strikes Proportion Pace Spheres

Author:Thomas Browne

“Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.”

Giving Night Ears Horse Notes Busy Preparation Dull Hammers Closing Knights Tents Piercings

Author:William Shakespeare

“Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.”

Giving Reading Ears Good Work Observing

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Long Hard Reason Answers Opinion Heard Ears Faults Critics Patient Impression Mistaken Censure

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.”

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”

Thinking Giving Humans Mean Evil Human Nature Greatness Willing Ready Goodness Ears Welcome Jealousy Reports Calumny Calumny Is

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays