We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.Joseph Joubert
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless it cannot hold itself together.
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Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.
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The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.- Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.
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It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debating it.
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