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Heaven is for those who think of it.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Heaven
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Thinking

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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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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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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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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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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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