You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWhen you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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