“youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.” WorldLooksProblemAgeActionAchieveYouthHarmonyLuckBusyCosmicOutlines Author:Freya Stark
“Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.” WayWellsSoulCertainPrinciplesYouthProduceConcernedHarmonyRhythmMelodyApplication Author:Plato
“There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: "Let us be friends."” ChildrenYouthHarmonyAthleteSuperstitionsScience And ReligionCradleWrecksTrembling Book:The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.] Source: The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]
“O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past” MenLongEndsPainLastsPastAttentionSunDyingYouthTaughtSweetTasteHarmonyTongueBreatheSettingSettingsVainEaseSweetestScarce Book:King Richard II: Third Series Source: King Richard II: Third Series