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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

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. – Joseph Addison

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Learning
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Joseph Addison
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. – Joseph Addison

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Death
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Joseph Addison
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. – Joseph Addison

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Laughter
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Other Quotes from
Music
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. – Samuel Johnson

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Music

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is its like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and itll be a hip-hop song. Thats the only music you can do that with. – Talib Kweli

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Music

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music. – Beth Ditto

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Music

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! – Yoko Ono

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Music

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There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way. – Mike Love

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. – John F. Kennedy

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Technology is permeating every single thing we do… And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, were planning for the future. – Marc Morial

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I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a storybook marriage. Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer. – Ann Romney

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Marriage