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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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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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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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The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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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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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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