Joubert, Joseph
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Joubert, Joseph
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joubert, Joseph
Charity
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Books - Reading
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
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Duty
Children need models rather than critics.
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Children
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Critics and Criticism
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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Books - Reading
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Consistency
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Excellence
The mind s direction is more important than its progress.
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Goals
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
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Friends and Friendship
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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Grace
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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God
Chance generally favors the prudent.
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Fate
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Imagination
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Modesty
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Imagination
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Humor
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Labor
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Ideals and Idealism
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Kindness
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Logic
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Manners
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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Mystery
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Kindness
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Monuments
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Superstition
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Spirit and Spirituality
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
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Painters and Painting
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Poetry and Poets
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Words
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Mind
To teach is to learn twice.
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Teachers and Teaching
Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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Tenderness
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
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Proverbs
Space is the stature of God.
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Space
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
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Truth
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
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Argument
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Ambition
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Argument
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Anger
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Youth
Ask the young. They know everything.
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Youth
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Writers and Writing