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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Well
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Evening
Brings
Spent
Youth
Wisdom
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Lamps

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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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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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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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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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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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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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Work like you don't need the money.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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