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Quote by Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. – Joseph Addison

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Solitude
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. – Joseph Addison

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great
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

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Sky & Clouds
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Other Quotes from
Music
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All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it. – Dave Barry

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Music

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. – Leopold Stokowski

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Music

Honestly, I dont listen to nobody elses music but my own. Its kind of like sports to me. You dont see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game – he just works on his own game. And thats what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things. – Lil Wayne

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Music

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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Music

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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. – John Naisbitt

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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. – Matsuo Basho

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Make tea, not war. – Monty Python

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Tea

The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When youre dealing with fear or laughter – emotions that happen spontaneously – you hope its working. But in the moment, you really have no idea. – Patrick Wilson

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Fear