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Music
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Nov 07, 2020

Music is love in search of a word.

Through
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Nov 07, 2020

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Stand
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Nov 07, 2020

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Nov 07, 2020

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

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