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"Children need models rather than critics."

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

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
Marriage

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
Poetry

"To teach is to learn twice."

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."

"Innocence is always unsuspicious."

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

"The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously."

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

"Justice is the truth in action."

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

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

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself."

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

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