Henry Purcell famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.
-- Henry Purcell -
Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.
-- Henry Purcell
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It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.
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Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.
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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
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Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
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Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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