We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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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Justice is the truth in action.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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