One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish 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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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