Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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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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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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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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