Never cut what you can untie.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHow many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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