Quotes About Harmony

Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.

of another, and he who received more accordingly must not preen himself on being supplied beyond his brothers, and he that received less but enough must not grudge the extra bestowed on his brothers. And above all, no grumbling, no envy.

the old, less rigidly organized Christianity of the Celtic Church lingered stubbornly there, even though the Roman rite had prevailed. They would accept a runaway novice, all the more when they heard him sing and play; they would provide him a patron and a house harp, and strip him of his skirts and find him chausses and shirt and cotte in payment for his music.

Notes of the same key respond to one another; Odors of the same nature merge together. Water flows toward what is wet, Fire rises toward what is dry. Clouds follow dragons; Winds follow tigers.

Simplicity does not need to be simple. Instead it should be forged of complexity that has been compressed and synthesized.

Till the war drum throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furledIn the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.

Ah! when shall all men's goodBe each man's rule, and universal peaceLie like a shaft of light across the land,And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,Through all the circle of the golden year?

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Let knowledge grow from more to more,But more of reverence in us dwell;That mind and soul, according well,May make one music as before.

It is the little rift within the lute,That by and by will make the music mute,And ever widening slowly silence all.

And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapp'd in universal law.

All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

It is a false dichotomy to think of Nature and Man. Mankind is a factor in Nature which exhibits in its most intense form the plasticity of Nature.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

He disliked them, not because they were his fellow-countrymen, but because they were noisy and obtrusive, obliterating with their big limbs and tweed clothing all the quieter tints of the day that brought him satisfaction and enabled him to melt into insignificance and forget that he was anybody.

like a priest's cassock reaching to the feet. It was altogether a lugubrious figure of a man, sinister and funereal, yet it seemed in perfect harmony with the general character of its surroundings.