It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. - Orlando Gibbons

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An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

Orlando Gibbons

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

Everything, Measured, Music Is, Proportion, Whole

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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

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The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise. '

Close, Eye, Farewell, Shore, Swans, Wise

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