Children need models rather than critics.

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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

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

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

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Children have more need of models than of critics.

Joseph Joubert in Thoughts (Pensées) (1850)
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

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

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