Music has charms to soothe a savage breast

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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As William Congreve wrote in a poem in 1697, “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.”

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The line "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast," is from Congreve's Mourning Bride, Act I. Sc.

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