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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Like
Eyeglasses
Blur
Vision
Clear
Words
Everything
Make

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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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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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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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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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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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The mind is the atmosphere 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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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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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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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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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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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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