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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 908b2f9 | The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 0f3d9e5 | Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 7c93ea8 | A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 83f203b | The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 153c3b6 | What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about." | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 7ca87d7 | I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 9ecf0e7 | The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| c75f3a3 | If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| fccd472 | No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925. | Thomas Beecham | ||
| 15bc26d | So do men oftentimes find their greatest cross where they expected their greatest comfort. | Thomas Boston | ||
| 79a856a | Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die, | Thomas Bracken | ||
| 40801a0 | Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 4b2a9b7 | The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| f418efc | God is as just as He is merciful. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 4ebebe8 | God will call evil men to a strict account for all the outward good that they have enjoyed. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 902fa4a | The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart. (page 87) | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 53b0e1b | You are wise, and know how to apply it. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 83d6f64 | Many are now dropped into hell that have formerly presumed of their going to heaven. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 6fdbb52 | Assurance is a jewel worth waiting for. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 4e44b94 | He who would to the purpose do a good action, must not neglect his season. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 8eaaf81 | Take no truths upon trust, but all upon trial. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 4def9f6 | Precepts may instruct, but examples persuade. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| a5e09e0 | Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 90ac9f1 | It is certain that great prosperity and worldly glory are no sure tokens of God's love. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 5c3e222 | Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 84cab3f | Though all truths are glorious, yet there is a double glory upon seasonable truths. | Thomas Brooks (Puritan) | ||
| 835ee82 | A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 2988446 | Rich with the spoils of Nature. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 3e3efe4 | I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 540b208 | I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 15ce331 | Art is the perfection of nature. | Thomas Browne | ||
| ff8c7cf | All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God. | Thomas Browne | ||
| cae469c | Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 206deed | Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 1488424 | This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 7473b0e | The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself. | Thomas Browne | ||
| a5efdc8 | There is no road or ready way to virtue. | Thomas Browne | ||
| d373613 | It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 971be48 | I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others | Thomas Browne | ||
| 022c2cc | We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 0ce61fa | For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 9566b64 | Happy are they that go to bed with grave music like Pythagoras. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 5561cb8 | A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. | Thomas Browne | ||
| 7ccdb73 | That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed. | Thomas Browne |