You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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 easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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