You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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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 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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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