#ear

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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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

#conscience #consumes #creeping #does #eats

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#art #disguise #mirth #most #seen

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. ↗

— Robert South

#clearer #great #reason

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. ↗

— Robert South

#earnest #man #measure #needs #praying

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. ↗

— Robert South

#heart #loquacity #modesty #storms #takes

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. ↗

— Terry Southern

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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ↗

— Robert Southey

#half #life #live #long #longest

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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