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Joseph Joubert Inspirational Quotes (170)

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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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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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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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