It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHow 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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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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