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Joseph Joubert Quotes

«All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: mature, youthful
«What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: lamplight, sunlight
«Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety»
«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.»
«They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night»
«Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another»
«Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | About: Words | Keywords: phosphorescence
«Words like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: aid, obscure
«We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion»
«Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.»

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