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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
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Sunday
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Poetry
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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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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
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Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
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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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We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
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History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
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No labor is hopeless.
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Friendship is the ideal friends are the reality reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
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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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Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
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Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
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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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To love is to choose.
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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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Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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