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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Eye
Pain
Speaking
Drawing
Ears
Painting
Talking

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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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