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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
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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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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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