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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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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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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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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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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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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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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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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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