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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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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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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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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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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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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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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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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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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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