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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
Fingers
Poet
Silence
Words
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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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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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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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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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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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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