“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.” MindStatesAgeDifferencesPleasureQualityConditionsMusic IsSeasonsSacredDistinctionProductiveTemperSecularAnguish Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion
“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.” WorldSoulEndsStatesLastsTurnsSecretExistenceThis WorldTearsEternalSeasonsCrisisDisappearTransitionPhasesTormentPassing Away Book:How It All Began: The Prison Novel Source: How It All Began: The Prison Novel