Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 12

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• A temperate style is alone classical.

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  Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Space is the stature of God.

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  God, Space, Star Gazing

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

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• History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

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  Distance, History, Perspective

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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  Book, Men, Religion

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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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  Self Esteem, Men, Long

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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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  Mother, Country, Nursing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

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  People, Meals, Fabric

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• In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

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  Cleanliness, Elegance, Temperance

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• To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

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  Ideas, Age, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Heaven is for those who think of it.

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  Thinking, Heaven

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.35

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• The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

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  Lying, Soul, Energy

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

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  Fire, Religion, Example

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

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  Speech, Incorporation

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

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  Wife, Widows, Dignity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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