Absent Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck Download Open image “Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.” — Maurice Maeterlinck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absent Happiness
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He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
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What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
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The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy. — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
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Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
