Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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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