Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERTKindness is loving people more than they deserve.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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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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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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