"Nothing in the whole world is so athirst……" — Maurice Maeterlinck
"Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily."
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Maurice Maeterlinck
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66 Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck has 66 quotes on this site.
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All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones.…
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The living are just the dead on holiday
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
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We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the…
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The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to…
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can…
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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More Athirst Quotes
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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.
— Charles Wagner
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Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give - my heart, body, thoughts,…
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water'…
— Gregory Palamas
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I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you…
— Herman Melville
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[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst…
— Thornton Wilder
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Because I have been athirst I will dig a well that others may drink.
— Arabian Proverb
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Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from…
— Bible
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I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the…
— Revelation 21:6
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