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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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The breath of the mind is attention.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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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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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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You arrive at truth through poetry I arrive at poetry through truth.
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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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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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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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