All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTPoliteness is the flower of humanity.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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 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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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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