Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.
(Quoted in The Reader's Digest - Vol. 87, 1965)

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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It is by little things that we know ourselves.

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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

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