Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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