I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

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Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. — Nelson Mandela

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There is a better way for everything. Find it.

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I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. - Tracy Chapman

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All things are difficult before they are easy.

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Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. — Henry David Thoreau

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