You will not find poetry anywhere 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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To teach is to learn twice.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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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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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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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