Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 10

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• If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

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  Warrior, Authority, Wells

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• Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

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  Kindness, Grace, Modesty

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• When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

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  Heart, Doe, Harm

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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  Book, Reputation, Made

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.147

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• Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

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  Fall, Lips, Surprise

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.25

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• Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

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  Exercise, Giving, Brain

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• Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

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  Silence, Poet, Fingers

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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  Government, Giving, Choices

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

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  Book, Reading, World

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• To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

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  Needs, Guests, Enjoy

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• Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

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  Success, Reflection, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.32

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• We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

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  Friendship, Giving, Opinion

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

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  Ruins, Reconstruction, Antiquity

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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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  Education, Children, Parent

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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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  Morning, Children, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

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  Criticism, Charm, Should

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
  [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]

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  Wings, Feet, Imagination

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• Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

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  Wise, Kings, Hands

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

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  Power, Excellence, Wells

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• In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

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  Children, Thinking, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.123

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• Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

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  Writing, Fine Words, Fine

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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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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  Men, Joy, Religion

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• The soul paints itself in our machines.

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  Soul, Machines, Paint

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• Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

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  Grief, Joy, Soul

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• In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

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  Gold, Use, Coins

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