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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Philibert Joseph Roux

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Philibert Joseph Roux
Age: 73 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 26
Died: 1854
Died: March 23
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Truth
Writing
Sunday
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Poetry
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A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
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Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
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Let us pray! God is just, he tries us God is pitiful, he will comfort us let us pray!
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
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Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
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I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
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God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
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Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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Friendship is the ideal friends are the reality reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
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Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
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When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
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To love is to choose.
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Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
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The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
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Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
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