You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert More Quotes by Joseph Joubert More Quotes From Joseph Joubert If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. Joseph Joubert gratitudeblessingevil The soul paints itself in our machines. Joseph Joubert machinespaintsoul There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. Joseph Joubert readingbookworld A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. Joseph Joubert naturalwritingneeds The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Joseph Joubert delightpainmind Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. Joseph Joubert ideas Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert progressvictoryblessing God is the place where I do not remember the rest. Joseph Joubert remember Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them. Joseph Joubert geniuslaborbeautiful Think of the ills from which you are exempt. Joseph Joubert thinking He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. Joseph Joubert heartbeautifulbeauty He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Joseph Joubert imaginationfeetwings Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity. Joseph Joubert governmentchoicesgiving There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. Joseph Joubert bodytastesoul To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. Joseph Joubert moralageideas The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power. Joseph Joubert judginggodideas We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. Joseph Joubert opinionfriendshipgiving The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from? Joseph Joubert mindbirdideas Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. Joseph Joubert kingswisehands 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. Joseph Joubert wellsexcellencepower
