When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGenius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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 not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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