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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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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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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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