It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTInnocence is always unsuspicious.
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You will find poetry nowhere 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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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