Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGrace 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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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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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Children need models rather than critics.
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