All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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