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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
Speaking
Drawing
Ears
Painting
Talking
Eye
Pain

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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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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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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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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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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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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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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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