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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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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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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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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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