There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe passions of the young are vices in the old.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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