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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
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Poetry
Doe
Nothing
Lyre
Winged
Transport

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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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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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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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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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