Joseph Joubert Quotes About Soul
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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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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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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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The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
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Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.
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