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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting."
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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent."
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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
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"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
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"No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful."
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"[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor."
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"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."
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"The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life."
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"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."
Music
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music
"Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty."
Beauty
"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"
Business
"I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time."
Music
"I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes."
Music
"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
Genius
"The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man."
Music
"My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people."
Success
"America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people."
People
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