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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTOne who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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To teach is to learn twice.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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