The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand
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- Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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- Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
- Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
- There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.