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 JOUBERTAll are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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A part of kindness consists in 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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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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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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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Space is the stature of God.
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