You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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