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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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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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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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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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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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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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When we love, it is the heart that judges.
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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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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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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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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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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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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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