You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTOnly choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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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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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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