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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Fulfills
Destiny
Happy
Inspirational
Thing
Men

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Space is the stature of God.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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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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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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