Mozart's music represents neither the prolonged sigh of faith that characterizes so much of the music written before his time, nor the stormy idealism which cloaks most music after him. Rather he is that mercurial balance of the skeptic and the humane. Like him, and in him, we can always discover new worlds . ~ Joseph Solman


Next word; worlds

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The world's mine oyster.~William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Next word: oyster

Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.
~ Charles Dickens



Next word: solitary

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

Mary Antin (1881 - 1949) Russian-US "socialite, author"
"""The Promised Land,"" Chap. 19, 1912."

next word: immigrant

That's right. These are the suitcases that immigrants brought with them, ... Star Trek . ~ George Takei


Next word; Trek

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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.~Albert Camus

Next word: detour(s)

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in foregoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family life.

Eleanor Holmes Norton (1937 - ____) US government official
"""For Sadie and Maude,"" In ""Sisterhood Is Powerful,"" ed. Robin Morgan, 1970."

next word: foregoing

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage . ~ Benjamin Disraeli


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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
~ Benjamin Disraeli



Next word: plunder

ALLIANCE - In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third . ~ Ambrose Bierce


Next word; third

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If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.~Cicero

Next word: disgrace

"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace , whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."

Sun Tzu [Wu] (BC 535 - 228) Chinese military strategist
"In ""The Art of War,"" ch. 10, Axiom 24, ed. by James Clavell, 1981."

next word: coveting

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
~ Ovid



Next word: striving

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge . ~ Einstein


Next word; knowledge

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"Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared."

Patricia Meyer Spacks (1929 - ____) US "literature scholar, writer"
"Gossip,"" Knopf 85; in NY ""Times,"" 1 Sep 1985."

next word: poring

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.~Alex Kroll

Next word: discern

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
~ Le Corbusier, Swiss Architect



Next word: epoch

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done . ~ Liberty Hyde Bailey


Next word; done

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"Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it. . ."

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) US "president, lawyer"
"Speech, 22 Feb 1842, Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Ill."

next word: enthusiastically

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.~B. C. Forbes

Next word: woo