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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Age: 86 †
Born: 1862
Born: August 29
Died: 1949
Died: May 5
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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
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At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.
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The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
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The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
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I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
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It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
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Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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