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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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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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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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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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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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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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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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