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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
Essayist
Philosopher
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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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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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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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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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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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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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