“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955Related quotes
“Laughter for the soul, and wine for the body.”
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Le rire pour l'âme et le vin pour le corps.
Le Moyen de Parvenir (1617).
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“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
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“The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
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“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
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"Boy in Darkness," Sometime, Never (1956)
“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction. Compare: "The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before", Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book ii (1605)
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