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" Music is the universal language of mankind. "
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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" As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. "
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" The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. "
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" Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. "
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" Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. "
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" Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. "
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