“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
