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Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Invented
Ornaments
Modesty

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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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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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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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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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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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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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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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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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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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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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