You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHow 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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Space is the stature of God.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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