You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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