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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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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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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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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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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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Remorse is the punishment of crime repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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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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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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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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