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Everything has its poetry. 94

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Joseph Joubert Poetry Writing

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

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Joseph Joubert Reading Writing

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

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Joseph Joubert Writing

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Achievement Difficulties Dreams Sacrifice Success

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

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Joseph Joubert Books Reading

Tenderness is the repose of passion.

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Joseph Joubert Passion Tenderness

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Book Lovers Escape Imagination The World

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

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Joseph Joubert Memory Time

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.

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Joseph Joubert Flexibility Open Mindedness Thinking Thoughts

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

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Joseph Joubert Questioning Mind Reflective Thinking

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

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Joseph Joubert Joubert Madness

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Debate Logic

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

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Joseph Joubert Opinions Stubbornness Stupidity

The breath of the mind is attention 128

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Joseph Joubert Attention Breath

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

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Joseph Joubert Art Artist

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Boldness Courage

Children have more need of models than of critics.

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Joseph Joubert Children Childhood

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

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Joseph Joubert Creating Positive Change

The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Creating Positive Change

When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.

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Joseph Joubert Friends Friendship

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Goals Ambition

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

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Joseph Joubert Goodness Giving

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Helping People

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Pressure Diamonds

Without duty life is soft and boneless.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert One Day

Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert One Day

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Self Reliance

To teach is to learn twice.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Teachers Teaching

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

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Joseph Joubert Words Language

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Future Safety Past

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Kindness People Loving

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Time Place Eternity

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Search You Honey

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Love Fear Father

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

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Joseph Joubert Imagination Feet Wings

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

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Joseph Joubert Superstition Capable Which

Justice is the truth in action.

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Joseph Joubert Justice Action

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

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Joseph Joubert Man Woman Friend

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 Joubert

Joseph Joubert Speak Grace Feelings

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

~ Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert Eye Soul
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