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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Robert South

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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. ↗

— Robert South

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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. ↗

— Robert South

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