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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780? — 1832
He [Man] cannot be said to be whole or human unless, having seen the polar opposites of his thinking and willing, he holds them both balanced by his feeling.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
For three hundred years the violin has remained unchanged; and the reason is because its shape and function have met in perfect harmony.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
... will acts without mediation and is only disempowered by the dividing processes of mind.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
I see a great land waiting for its own people to come and take possession of it. ... Everything that the land has calls an answer in the breast of the people, and quickly grows love for the use of those that live on it. Without this love, no People can exist; this is the creation, nourishment, and defence of Nations.
Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929
More like a man
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
The ratio inherent in the sound he [Orpheus] found himself able to utter was a reflection of the ratio of the higher sound of cosmic intelligence. Knowledge and the use of this lesser ratio offered him a gateway to his lost source — a return journey, and from the point of view of the Creator, a feed-back without which no relating is possible.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
There is no remedy for time misspent;
Aubrey Thomas de Vere, 1814-1902
He [the artist] knows, on the intuitive level, too much for the intellectual who admits only logic and who suggests therefore some softness or weakness in his nature; and he is too refined for the aggressive man of ambition or the diggers of the earth, who suggest that his feet are not sufficiently on the ground.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The unblemished movement of the bow over the string is like Man's unblemished consciousness trained to return back inwards to the centre of his being where, rose-like, he is developing to full bloom.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
A man has the basic ability to think, to feel, and to will, a division which has been used by widely diverging religious and psychological systems.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
It is best to cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger.
Irish Proverb
Now, as fond fathers,
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Seneca, BCE ?1-65 CE
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
... relationship, whether human or mechanical, is always vibratory — it is a quivering and sensitive tension between apparently irreconcilable poles.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The symbolism of the bowed instrument is an embracing one: it is as though the whole cosmic creative process had been embodied in the violin and the bow, and in the relationship between them. The instrument is female, matter, passive; the bow is male, spirit, active.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
... the form of a piece of music is the bare structure of the written notes, static, and a mere vehicle for the life-force of the musician that is to animate it.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Live and let love.
Anon
By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
Youthful rashness skips like a hare over the meshes of good counsel.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Manly P Hall, b. 1901
Form by itself... is clearly deficient: for wholeness we need the balancing function of the opposite pole, the raw energy that is enclosed in and operates through any given life-form.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
... a man has his own tone, name, and tongue. The way back to deeper levels is through the fundamental tone at which he resonates and the name with which he is endowed. The bell begins to ring for joy when a man finds his own way back to pure being.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Greece was destined to bring about the formal ordering of the external world and to establish individualism — an awareness of self in Man which reached its climax in the figure and work of Christ.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
George Herbert, 1593-1633
Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends.
Book of Jeremiah
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
Jean de La Bruyere, 1645-1696
Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
Marcus Porcius Cato, (The Younger), BCE 95-46
Sound was consciously ordered only as the intellect developed. Man became musician and thinker together.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
... the death-knell, or passing bell, is not one of morbid sorrow, but of recognition that the individual being has returned to the Absolute Being whence he came.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Flying from something he dreads than one
Who sought the thing he loved.
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Having bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch,
Only to stick it in their children's sight
For terror, not to use; in time the rod
Becomes more mock'd than fear'd; so our decrees,
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead,
And liberty plucks justice by the nose;
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
Goes all decorum.
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.