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Ambition
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Anger
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
-Joseph Joubert
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Argument & Debate
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Art
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
-Joseph Joubert
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Authors & Writing
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
-Joseph Joubert
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Charity
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
-Joseph Joubert
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Children
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Consistency
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
-Joseph Joubert
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Criticism
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Duty
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
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Emotions
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Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
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Excellence
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Fate & Destiny
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
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Friends
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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
-Joseph Joubert
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Goals
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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God
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Grace
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Humility
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
-Joseph Joubert
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Humor
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
-Joseph Joubert
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Idealism
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Imagination
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Kindness
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Books by and about Joseph Joubert