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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGenius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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