Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLogic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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