There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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The 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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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