Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

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"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Awareness

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Compassion

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Hope

"The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness

"He loves his country best who strives to make it best."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

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