Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
George Sand quote Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand quote Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand quote One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
George Sand quote 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 quote Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand quote No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand quote 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.
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