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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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All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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I count only the hours that are serene.
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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
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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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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.
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Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
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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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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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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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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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We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
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And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
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