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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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Philosopher
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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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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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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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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Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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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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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
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