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Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Space
Place
Time
Eternity

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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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Space is the stature of God.
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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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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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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