Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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