The passions of the young are vices in the old.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThere was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its 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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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