Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George SandRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Faith is a precious and powerful state of mind that should be cherished rather than wasted on trivial matters.
In this quote, George Sand emphasizes the importance of faith as a dynamic and exciting aspect of human experience. She suggests that faith represents intellectual greatness and should be treasured, warning against neglecting it through meaningless talk or overly rigid debate. Instead of letting faith become diluted by superficial discussions, we should value and protect it as something extraordinary in our lives.
Themes
FaithEnthusiasmTreasureIntellectualLife
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about resilience, one might say, 'As George Sand reminds us, faith is a treasure we must not squander.'
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
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