We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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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Never cut what you can untie.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Kindness is 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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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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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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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