Joseph Joubert Quotes About Quality
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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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 fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
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