"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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“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”
“Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.”

Source : "The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle". Book by Aristotle, transl. by R. W. Browne, Book VI, Chapter II, 1850.
“[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to ***** or stop.”
“I don't recommend washing your face. Because you might drown.”

Source : "Jenna Marbles’ Drunk Makeup Tutorial" by Sara Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2012.
“I realized that I'd rather die with you than live with someone else.”
“Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.”
“The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.”
“Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.”

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