Ludwig van beethoven
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
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I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
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ACT ONE Overture FIRST SCENE Marzellina, Jaquino. No. 1 - Duet JAQUINO Now, Sweetheart, at last we are alone Let us have now a quiet chat. MARZELLINA It cannot be all that important, I must...
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