Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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