Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
JOSEPH JOUBERTMisery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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