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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Cannonball
Cannonballs
Thought
Real
Thing

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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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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
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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 want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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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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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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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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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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