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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Space is the stature of God.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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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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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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