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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

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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Pleasure
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless theyre paid for it. – Leonard Cohen

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Music

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. – Pythagoras

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Music

I think the world is ready for some rock n roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it. – Vince Neil

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Music

I love to make music and stay grounded. – Annie Lennox

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When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. – Arthur Hailey

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and thats why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. – Mother Teresa

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One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You dont know it. – James Lovelock

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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. – Victoria Billings

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