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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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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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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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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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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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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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