A maxim is the exact and ...

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
 Joseph Joubert

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
 Joseph Joubert
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
 Joseph Joubert
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
 Joseph Joubert
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
 Joseph Joubert
It is always our inabilities that vex us.
 Joseph Joubert