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Men Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
- 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.
- In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one,…
- 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,…
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought,…
- No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some…
- There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
- What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
- At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
- If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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