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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
Drawing
Ears
Painting
Talking
Eye
Pain
Speaking

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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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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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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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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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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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