He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERTImagination is the eye of the soul.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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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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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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