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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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