Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERTNever cut what you can untie.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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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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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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