You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWho ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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