Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERTJustice is the truth in action.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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