Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWhen you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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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 cut what you can untie.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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