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As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music. — Kahlil Gibran

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung. — Charles Lamb

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. — William Shenstone

I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee. — Charles Lamb

May we two stand,
When we are dead, beyond the setting suns,
A little from other shades apart,
With mingling hair, and play upon one lute. — William Butler Yeats

Thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute. — William Shakespeare

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives? — Kahlil Gibran

He stood beside a cottage lone
And listened to a lute,
One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
And the nightingale was mute. — Thomas Kibble Hervey

Longing alone is singer to the lute. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy. — David Russell

The days that stick in my mind are not the ones when I had the answers, but the ones when I didn't. — Susan Lute

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! — Walter Scott

When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will. — Dillon Burroughs

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades. — Edward Ruscha

Musicians had been assholes since the day the lute was invented. — Nick Hornby

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system. — Dan Marino

In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain. — Alexander Pope

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

S called a lute," said Caleb, through a mouthful of walrus.
"Whut?"
"IT'S CALLED A LUTE, HAMISH!"
"Aye, I used to loot! — Terry Pratchett

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms. — Ding Ling

The legends say that the god Mars was the parent of tears, foe to dance and lute. — Pierce Brown

I never make conscious decisions. — Anthony Hopkins

I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity. — Hank Green

Needless to say, playing these things hurt, but it was a hurt like tender fingers on lute strings. I bled a bit and hoped that I would callous soon. — Patrick Rothfuss

His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates. — Edgar Allan Poe

What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I was like, 'What's Margiela?' back then. — Kim Kardashian

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned. — Gautama Buddha

...it is easier to make powerful ideas practical than it is to make pedestrian ideas powerful. — David Novak

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute. — Bill Engvall

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute. — Raymond E. Feist