"What man is there that does not laboriously,……" — Maurice Maeterlinck
"What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life."
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Maurice Maeterlinck
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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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