Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born … - John Armstrong - Quotesmemo.com

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John Armstrong

Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little rent Than the dull monarch of a continent; Without this bounty which the gods bestow, Can Fortune make one favorite happy? No.

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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

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Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

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Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

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For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

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How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

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