There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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