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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHe who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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 direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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