You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTGenius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Never cut what you can untie.
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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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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