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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Imitates
Politeness
Modesty
Kindness
Grace

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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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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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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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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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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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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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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
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