Ask the young. They know everything.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLove and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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