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• I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk...
• O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk...
• How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk...
• There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.
  A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell....
• A kick that scarce would move a horse May kill a sound divine.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Yearly Distre...
• When the music played, I heard the sound I had to follow!
• P. D. Q. Bach's life proves, if proof be needed, the importance of a sound musical education.
  -- Prof. Peter Schickele (?)...
• We don't care about posterity; we want it to sound good right now. -- D. Ellingto
• When Eudaemonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he
  but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets....