Harmonious Quotes - Page 10

• From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Progress, Brooks

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.23

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• If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society.

  William Wilberforce

  Country, Men, Rights

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Creating, People, Tolerance

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• A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

  Jean Helion

  Eye, Reality, Harmony

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• There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

  John Muir

  Unity, Yosemite, Fragments

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.84, e-artnow

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• Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Grace, Passing Away

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4864, Delphi Classics

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• In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

  Sydney Brenner

  People, Challenges, Atmosphere

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• I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Country, America, People

  "Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo". Interview with John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

  Kelly Hoppen

  Exercise, Calm, Quiet

  FaceBook post by Kelly Hoppen from Sep 20, 2013

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• It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Routine, Conformity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

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• I love mixing and playing with different textures and the whole taking different designers and mixing them - I was one of the first, I think, to not do a full runway look, yet there's always a method to the madness, which is the harmonious discord.

  Lori Goldstein

  Thinking, Mixing, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

  Charles Simmons

  Witty, Order, Expression

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.3

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• Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.

  John Muir

  Nature, Stars, Animal

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.9, e-artnow

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• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Communication, Dark, Light

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.

  John Dewey

  Self, Expression, Community

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• We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Cities, Voice

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• Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

  T. S. Eliot

  Culture, Sake, Aim

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Mean, Rights, Skills

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• Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

  Alexis Carrel

  Prayer, Giving, Mind

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• The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection) refers to the optimal distance point, where you're close enough to connect well and far enough to enjoy your own space.

  Stephen Gilligan

  Distance, Mean, Space

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• It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world

  Dalai Lama

  Dream, People, Humanity

  "Nobel lecture". www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

  Arthur Helps

  Fall, Men, Glasses

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.25

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• I want people to understand there is a such a thing as creating a harmonious experience between the dogs and the humans.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Creating, People

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. October 8, 2016.

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• It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

  B. C. Forbes

  Democracy, Progress, Doe

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• The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned, these, and such like, are the surest grounds of the title of mathematics to human regard, and would remain unimpeached and unimpaired were the plan of the universe unrolled like a map at our feet, and the mind of man qualified to take in the whole scheme of creation at a glance.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Beauty, Men, Order

  James Joseph Sylvester (1908). “The Collected Mathematical Papers: (1870-1883)”

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