You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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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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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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