It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTInnocence is always unsuspicious.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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 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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