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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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There was a time when the world acted on books now books act on the world.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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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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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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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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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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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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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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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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