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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
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Thinking

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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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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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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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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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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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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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Space is the stature of God.
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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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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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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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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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