Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERTAll are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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