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“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Love #Kindness #Women
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“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Inspirational #Education #Learning
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“Children need models rather than critics.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Positive #Education #Children
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“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Inspirational #Victory #Intelligence
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“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Fathers Day #Dad #Inspire
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“Never cut what you can untie.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Life #Cutting #Interesting
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“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Inspirational #Life #Eye
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“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Anticipation #Sunlight
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“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Poetry #Poetic
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“All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#War #Order #Born
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“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Love #Happiness #Happy
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“Space is to place as eternity is to time.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Time #Space #Eternity
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“We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Character #Humility #Echoes
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“It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Ideas #Polish
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“Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Writing #Use #Fancy
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“Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Country #Travel #Life Is
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“To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Respect #Worthy #Capable
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“Innocence is always unsuspicious.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Innocence
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“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Spiritual #Soul #World
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“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Marriage #Wedding Anniversary #Men
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“To teach is to learn twice.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Inspirational #Life #Education
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“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Meaningful #Flower #Humanity
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“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Children #Pain #Wrinkles
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“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Soul #Religion #Superstitions
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“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Anger #Hiking #Long
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“Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Math #Logic #Metaphysics
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“The paper is patient, but the reader is not.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Paper #Patient #Reader
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“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Powerful #Writing #Never Giving Up
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“All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Beauty #Beautiful #Gardener
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“Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
-- Joseph Joubert
#Together #Life Is #Togetherness
