It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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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To teach is to learn twice.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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