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"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

"The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant."

"Love in fools is better than hate in the wise."

"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."

"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."

"Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles."

"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."

"Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions."

"The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own."

"When love enters your heart, hate is given an eviction notice."
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"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

"An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can."

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."

"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."

"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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