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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Genius
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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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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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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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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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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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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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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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