The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThere was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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