George Eliot Quotes About Music
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Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
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There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.
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