The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWithout the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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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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