Imagination is the eye of the soul.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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