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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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