Joseph Joubert Quotes About Giving
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A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
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Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
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Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
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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.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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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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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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