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1625 Essayist Quotes

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

God Place Remember Rest
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Imagination is the eye of the soul
Imagination Eye Soul
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When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Search Honey Expect Stung
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery Result Thinking
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Children need models rather than critics.

Children Models Critics
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The breath of the mind is attention

Breath Mind Attention
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Everything has its poetry.

Everything Poetry
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The soul paints itself in our machines.

Soul Paints Machines
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Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

World Saints Conquerors Poets
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Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

Memory Travel Time Course
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Imagination Learning Wings Feet
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

Words Polish Ideas
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Virtues Defects Character Live
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry Nowhere You
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Genuis Great works Labor Finishes
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To teach is to learn twice.

Teach Learn Twice
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Debate Question Settling
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Pleasure Emotion Writer Reader
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Choose Marriage Friend Woman
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We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Convince Arguments Persuade Own
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Kindness Loving People Deserve
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You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

You Talk Someone Open
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Mediocrity Excellence
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Remedy Temper Walk
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

True Lamplight Sunlight
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

Worries Weaknesses
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
Mind Atmosphere Soul
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Superstitution Religion Souls Capable
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Retract Opinions Love Truth
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There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

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

Words Glass Obscure Vision
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Old age Intelligent Qualities Wisdom
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Words Blur Clear
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Passions Stuff Happiness
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Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Music Letters Writing Notes
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Fixed Opinions Constant Feelings
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Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Living Life Requires
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In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Happy Think Ills Spared
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
Life Thinking Conscious Soul
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions

Impulses Naught Good Actions
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Time Truth Moments Hostile
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To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Capable Respect Rare Worthy
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..the heart is an organ of fire.

Heart Organ Fire
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Death means you are in the third person.

Death Means Third person
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Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

Love Small Eye Needle
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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

Sleep Prison Boy Friends
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if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

You Plunder Past Abscence
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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Knot Heart Wish Untie
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From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Point Find Lose Souls
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A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Novel Mirror Road
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