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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTSpace is to place as eternity is to time.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Space is the stature of God.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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