The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERTYou will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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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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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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Never cut what you can untie.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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