“Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.” KnowsRunningSoundFeetEarsSweetestAilments Author:Gregory Maguire
“Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.” ParentSoundForeverSweetestMute Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.” SoundHeardSummerSpringSweetestMellowBluebirdConfiding Author:Thomas Roberts
“Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.” PlayLeftParentSoundForeverCuttingSeaMiddleRiversDepthFishesBoatFearlessLakesFishingTailsSweetestRushingMuteMingling Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones” SelfSoundVoiceLosesLove IsVirtueSelf LoveEarsHarmonyToneFancyDelusionAttemptingSweetestTediousOratorsTiresome Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University
“A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.” SoundVoiceSightHarmonyLovelyCharmSweetestCountenance Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.” FeelsPersonsSoundMusicSingingExquisiteSweetest Author:Lynda Barry