Wells Quotes by Joseph Joubert

9 Wells quotes by Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert’s nine brief musings treat wells as quiet places for thought, delivering a succinct glimpse of his measured, contemplative voice.

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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience…

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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

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A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and…

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A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to…

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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…

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The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling…

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Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,…

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Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

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What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

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Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

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How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

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God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

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We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

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We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a…

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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…

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