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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTChildren need models rather than critics.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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