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 "Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume; and our life — the life of all of us — identical. For we transcend the circumstance continually, and taste the real quality of existence."

"Gives a thing but small delight that never can be dear."

"Mount from the earth; Aspire! Aspire! So pleads the town's cathedral quire." . "That which music expresses is eternal, infinite, ideal; it does not express the passion, the love, the desire of this or that individual, but passion, love, desire themselves." . "But be filled with the Spirit, speaking one to another in psalms (or songs, really, the word meant to the Jews — not essentially ecclesiastical or devotional) and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; giving thanks (thus in singing) " vi. 19. "For music (which is earnest of a heaven Seeing we know emotions strange by it, Not else to be revealed) is as a voice, A low voice calling fancy, as a friend, To the green woods in the gay summer-time, And she fills all the way with dancing shapes."