“A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."
[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
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[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
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“Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“A safe, still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us: and it is in the unclouded night sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His Omnipresence.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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