Never cut what you can untie.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe passions of the young are vices in the old.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Space is the stature of God.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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