“ "The harp at Nature's advent strung has never ceased to play; the song the stars of morning sung has never died away.". ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. ”
- Zora Neale Hurston- Copy
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“ The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. ”
- Eleanor H. Porter- Copy
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“ I was brought up as a strict Baptist and when I was about 14 I thought, I don't want to spend eternity sitting on a bloody cloud playing a harp. Utopia sounds good, but wouldn't it get bloody boring? ”
- David Bellamy- Copy
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“ Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness… ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young — but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers — are the curses of the world. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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