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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.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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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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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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