Quotes from Joseph Joubert


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    The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

    Progress | Direction


    Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

    Alone | Great | Genius


    All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

    Born | Observe | Order


    God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

    God | Remember | Rest


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

    Time | Act | Books


    Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

    Vision | Words | Glass


    You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

    Poetry | Bring | Unless


    Space is the stature of God.

    God | Space | Stature


    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.

    Great | Men | Teach


    The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

    Pain | Delight | Forth


    Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

    Opinions | Feelings | Constant


    Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

    Wrinkles | Pleasures | Pains


    One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

    Learning | Wings | Feet


    Justice is the truth in action.

    Truth | Justice | Action


    He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

    Learning | Wings | Feet


    Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

    Great | Emotion | Writer


    The passions of the young are vices in the old.

    Vices | Passions


    Space is to place as eternity is to time.

    Space | Time | Eternity


    How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

    Shadows | Abstract | Profound


    Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

    Indulge | Charitable | Thyself


       

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