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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Robert Burns · Johnson’s Musical Museum. Sensibility How Charming, st. 4

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Had we never loved so kindly, had we never loved so blindly, never met or never parted, we had ne'er been broken-hearted.

Robert Burns · The source reads: “Had we never lov'd sae kindly, / Had we never lov'd sae blindly, / Never met—or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted.” · The middle stanza of "Ae Fond Kiss," his farewell to Agnes Maclehose, written in 1791 as she sailed for Jamaica; the familiar form turns the Scots "sae" to "so."

Contented wi’ little and cantie wi’ mair.

Robert Burns · Johnson’s Musical Museum. Contented wi’ Little, st. 1

God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Robert Burns · Posthumous Pieces. To the Reverend John M’Math, st. 8

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Sweet is the whispering music of yonder pine that sings.

Theocritus · Idylls, no. I

There's no business like show business.

Irving Berlin

With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing.

Hesiod · The Theogony

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