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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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