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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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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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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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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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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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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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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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