There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever cut what you can untie.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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