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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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