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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Kindness
Joseph Joubert

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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition
Joseph Joubert

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Ask the young. They know everything.
Youth
Joseph Joubert

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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Charity
Joseph Joubert

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Chance generally favors the prudent.
Fate
Joseph Joubert

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Children need models rather than critics.
Children
Joseph Joubert

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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Painters and Painting
Joseph Joubert

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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Labor
Joseph Joubert

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Friends and Friendship
Joseph Joubert

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Imagination
Joseph Joubert

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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
Argument
Joseph Joubert

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Kindness
Joseph Joubert

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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Logic
Joseph Joubert

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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Monuments
Joseph Joubert

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Imagination
Joseph Joubert

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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Modesty
Joseph Joubert

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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
Ideals and Idealism
Joseph Joubert

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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Manners
Joseph Joubert

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Space is the stature of God.
Space
Joseph Joubert

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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Superstition
Joseph Joubert

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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
Tenderness
Joseph Joubert

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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Argument
Joseph Joubert

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Anger
Joseph Joubert

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

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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
Goals
Joseph Joubert

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun