100 ordspråk av Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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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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Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety
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Space is the stature of God.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable
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Tenderness is the repose of Passion
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Tenderness is the repose of Passion
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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