Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThere was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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