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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.
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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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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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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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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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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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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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
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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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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 not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
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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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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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The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
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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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