Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.


Joseph Joubert

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“When everything seems blur than blink your life not eyes.”
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Unfortunately it is so common that they all blur together.
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Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL
I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON
'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON
My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH