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 JOUBERTIt is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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