We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor Quotations
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.