All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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