Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
JOSEPH JOUBERTYou will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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