Henry Purcell famous quotes

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.
-- Henry Purcell

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Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.
-- Henry Purcell

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Christ is made the sure foundation
-- Henry Purcell

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I attempt from love's sickness to fly.
-- Henry Purcell

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It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Peace is never more than one thought away.