Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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For harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.
Harmony and grace depend on simplicity, the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character.
Harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes.
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men – as well as his great moments of grand harmony – a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning – both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.
Dissonance is the truth about harmony.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
