"Silence is more musical than any song."

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Source : "Rest" l. 10 (1862)

Christina Rossetti

#Song Quotes #Silence Quotes #Musical Quotes

“Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.”
“Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.”
“The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee (1861). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work”
“...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better”
“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”

Source : Statement on October 29, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 141, 1962.
“La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.”
“I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.”
“My dads music was a great inspiration to me.”

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