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The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it. And everything you say will be held against you.


Virgil Thomson

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VIRGIL Love conquers all.
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VIRGIL Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
VIRGIL They succeed, because they think they can.
VIRGIL Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
VIRGIL Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
VIRGIL There's a snake lurking in the grass.
VIRGIL He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
VIRGIL Time is flying never to return.
VIRGIL It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb bac...
VIRGIL Time flies never to be recalled.
VIRGIL Time passes irrevocably.
VIRGIL But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
VIRGIL Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
VIRGIL Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
VIRGIL Nunc scio quit sit amor.
VIRGIL I saw these terrible things,and took great part in them.
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VIRGIL Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
VIRGIL What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
VIRGIL Mind moves matter.
VIRGIL Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
VIRGIL A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.
VIRGIL Time bears away all things, even the mind.
VIRGIL Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.
VIRGIL Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
VIRGIL Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
VIRGIL Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
VIRGIL You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
VIRGIL Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
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VIRGIL Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
VIRGIL Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
VIRGIL Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
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VIRGIL Fame hides her head among the clouds.
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VIRGIL Death twitches my ear;
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'I'm coming.
VIRGIL Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
VIRGIL Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
VIRGIL The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
VIRGIL Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
VIRGIL Trust not to much to appearances.
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VIRGIL Trust one who has gone through it.
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VIRGIL Fortune favors the bold.
VIRGIL They can because they think they can.
VIRGIL Trust one who has tried.
VIRGIL Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
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VIRGIL Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
VIRGIL A snake lurks in the grass.
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VIRGIL Death's brother, Sleep.
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VIRGIL They can conquer who believe they can.
VIRGIL Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
VIRGIL O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
VIRGIL Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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VIRGIL None but himself can be his parallel.
VIRGIL The descent to Avernus is easy
VIRGIL Fortune sides with him who dares
VIRGIL Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.
VIRGIL Fury itself supplies arms.
VIRGIL When I saw her I as undone.
VIRGIL If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.
VIRGIL We may be masters of our every lot: By bearing it
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VIRGIL Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
VIRGIL Want of pluck shows want of blood.
VIRGIL The goddess was discovered by her gait.
VIRGIL Time speeds away irretrievably
VIRGIL Every sound alarms.
VIRGIL A feeble dart short of its mark.
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VIRGIL His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
VIRGIL He follows his father with unequal steps.
VIRGIL I shudder when relating it.
VIRGIL He enters the port with a full sail.
VIRGIL A mighty pomp, but made of little things
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VIRGIL Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love
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VIRGIL To have died once is enough.
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VIRGIL She acquires momentum as she advances.
VIRGIL Fortune favours the bold
VIRGIL Time is flying, never to return
VIRGIL She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
VIRGIL To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud.
VIRGIL There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
VIRGIL I see the same drive in her as in Britney,
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VIRGIL Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
VIRGIL You ought to be able to state your plan in a few succinct sentences,
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VIRGIL In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
VIRGIL To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.
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VIRGIL Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
VIRGIL He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
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VIRGIL No day shall erase you from the memory of time
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