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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
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Philosopher
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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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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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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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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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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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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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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