"If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind."

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Source : Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.298

Giovanni Ruffini

#Country Quotes #Mind Quotes #Body Quotes

“I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.”
“All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.”
“All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.”
“How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour...”
“If you really believe death leads to eternal bliss then why are you wearing a seatbelt?”
“The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.”
“I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind ...”
“God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.”

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