Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWe must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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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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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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