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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
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Poet
Silence
Words
Become
Luminous
Finger
Passed
Fingers

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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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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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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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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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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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