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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Polish
Words
Ideas

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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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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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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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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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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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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 last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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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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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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