Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWe must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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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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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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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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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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 find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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