Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
“Listening to music that I hate calms me down.”
"Where Are You Off To Now?"
Anthology
“The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.”
“If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break
In music, sweeter than it ever gave”
"The Return of the Goddess" (1850), later published as the Preface to The Poet's Journal (1863); also in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 103.
Context: If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break
In music, sweeter than it ever gave,
As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake,
And laughs in every wave.
“A solitary man is a God, or a beast.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
Context: The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
“6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast,
To one that’s not a Beast.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 1370. Enough's as good as a Feast.
