Passing/music

Famous quotes containing the words passing and/or music:

“The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)