Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Music
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
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Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
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Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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