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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
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Lyre
Winged
Transport
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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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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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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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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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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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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