Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Space is the stature of God.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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