Joseph Joubert Quotes and Quotations
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. Children have more need of models than of critics. Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself. Imagination is the eye of the soul. Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. Never cut what you can untie. To teach is to learn twice. Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear. Without duty, life is soft and bone less. Misery is almost always the result of thinking. It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it. Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Think of the ills from which you are exempt. Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself. When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. Without duty, life is soft and boneless. Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. Misery is almost always the result of thinking. What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. The spectacle has changed, but our eyes remain the same. Without duty, life is soft and boneless. Chance usually favors the prudent man. Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes it. You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. Children have more need of models than of critics. Imagination is the eye of the soul. He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Never cut what you can untie. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Never cut what you can untie. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Never cut what you can untie. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Never cut what you can untie. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Never cut what you can untie. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Never cut what you can untie. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Never cut what you can untie. Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Never cut what you can untie.
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