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“Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.”

Writing Joy Passion Music History Music Is Writing Music My One And Only

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to arraign the policy of Stilicho, who so often vanquished, so often surrounded, and so often dismissed the implacable enemy of the republic. The first moment of the public safety is devoted to gratitude and joy; but the second is diligently occupied by envy and calumny.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”

World Years Mind Children Stills Joy Half History Greater Sadness Events Thousand Degrees Distance Fortune Thousand Years Good And Bad Outlines Bad Fortune Joy And Sadness

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.”

Knows Wisdom Able Past Happiness Joy Enjoy Ability Mistake Knowledge History

Book:Doctor's Orders

Source: Doctor's Orders

“The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.”

Heart Persons Joy Jesus Prayer Walks History My Heart

Book:Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World

Source: Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World

“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”

Joy Dies History Duty Fit Joy Of Life Do Not Fear

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.”

Giving Years Art Philosophy Joy History Forever Activity Fortune Possession Aspiration Estates Revenue

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.”

People Faces Joy Girl Waiting Black History Blood Youth Stealing Holocaust Nazism Satanic Nazi Germany Mein Kampf Unsuspecting

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf