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Joseph Joubert
 
Nationality:   French
 
Date of Birth:   May 7, 1754
 
Date of Death:   May 4,  1824
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
 
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
 
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
 
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Children need models rather than critics.
 
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
 
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
 
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Space is the stature of God.
 
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Never cut what you can untie.
 
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
 
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
 
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
 
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
 
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
 
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
 
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
 
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
 
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