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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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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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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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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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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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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
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TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
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