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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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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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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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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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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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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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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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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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