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.

Quote by Joseph Joubert

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It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for...

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for...

Justice is the truth in action.

Justice is the truth in action.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she...

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she...

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he...

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he...

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Ask the young. They know everything.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in...

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in...

God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and...

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and...

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Public opinion in this country is everything.