Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Space is the stature of God.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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