The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWe must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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