All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish 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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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 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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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