"Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed;……" — Maurice Maeterlinck
"Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more."
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66 Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
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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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I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from…
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I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition…
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I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil,…
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Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
— Barbara Lee
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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think,…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for…
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What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal.…
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred…
— Charles Perrault
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Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or…
— Alexander Pope
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There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that…
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