"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."

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Source: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 43-45), 1922.

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Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer known for his explorations of love and individuality in literature, particularly in works like 'Hesperus'.

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"A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom."

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