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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