The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTYou will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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