You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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