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Joseph Joubert Inspirational Quotes (170)

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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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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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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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