Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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