"We like the gift when we the giver prize."

-- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

#Giver Quotes #Prize Quotes

“I always feel like music should be a universal language.”

Source : "Soul Star Melanie Fiona Sings Of Love, Pain". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 21, 2010.
“Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.”
“Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself.”
“There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1848). “The Works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is Prefixed: Sermons. Correspondence between Dr. Butler and Dr. Clarke”, p.21
“Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini, Emilie Ashurst Venturi (2004). “Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera”, Edwin Mellen Pr
“You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory â€” the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness â€” but the essence is timeless.”
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”
“Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.109, Hachette UK

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