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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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Poetry
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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
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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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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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Everything that is exquisite hides itself.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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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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The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
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Friendship is the ideal friends are the reality reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
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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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Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
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Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
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Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
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Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
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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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At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
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No labor is hopeless.
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The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
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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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God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
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