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

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

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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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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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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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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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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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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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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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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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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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