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• The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

  Jean Cocteau

  Musical, Noses, Pieces

  "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.

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• Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, May, Hearing

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.597, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  Anthony Holden

  Loss, Anecdotes, Literature

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• Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Loss, Men, Thinking

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, Umpires

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

  Karl Kraus

  Loss, Doe, Want

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.118, University of Illinois Press

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• The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Secret, Purpose

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

  Abraham Coles

  Sweet, Loss, Pulse

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• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2125, Delphi Classics

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• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Loss, Lakes

  "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

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• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

  Mark Antony

  Ambition, Loss, Dogs Of War

  "Fictional character: Mark Anthony". "Mark Anthony’s Speech at Funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare", www.cbsenext.com. October 17, 2013.

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• But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

  William Cowper

  Loss, Ears, Animated

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.121

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• How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

  Philip Massinger

  Loss, Voice, Good Woman

  Philip Massinger, John Ferriar (1813). “The city madam. The guardian. A very woman. The bashful lover. The old law”, p.541

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• There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

  John Chancellor

  Loss, President, Ears

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• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Ears, Pistols

  1833 Of puns. Last Essays of Elia,'Popular Fallacies', no.9.

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• Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Men, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4418, Delphi Classics

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• The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

  Ronald Reagan

  Loss, Ears, Columbia

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• And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, Mistress, Sound

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

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• We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Loss, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.380, Princeton University Press

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• When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Loss, Echoes, Air

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.123, Xist Publishing

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• Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Loss, Clouds

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: prose and verse”, p.59

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• Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Loss, Play

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

  Shelley Winters

  Movie, Mean, Loss

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• When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cutting, Loss, Village

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Policeman's Lot”

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• One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

  Gertrude Stein

  Loss, Said, Heard

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.310, Univ of California Press

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