You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTMisery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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