Music has charms to soothe a savage breast

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Music has the power to enchant even the roughest of people. This proverb comes from the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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What an amazing thing to be able to listen to any music you want, a whole world of bands.
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Do you think that as we get older our thoughts shift to the more abstract, the music, than the definite, the lyrics?
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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Under so many savage blows, the labouring mountains brought forth Turks.
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