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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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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Genius
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History
Intangible
Art
Manipulate
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Features
Invisible
Paint

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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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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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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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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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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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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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