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Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Beauty category:
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, we paint the semblance of a form divine. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Belief category:
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Freedom category:
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Future category:
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Goodness category:
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Happiness category:
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Knowledge category:
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Life category:
-quoted and illustrated by Tom Thomson and given to his parents...
It is well to have visions of a better life than that of every day, but it is the life of every day from which elements of a better life must come. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Love category:
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Peace category:
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Pets category:
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Renewal category:
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Rewards category:
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Silence category:
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Solitude category:
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Tradition category:
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Truth category:
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Understanding category:
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Understanding category:
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maurice Maeterlinck - From the Words category:
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. (Maurice Maeterlinck)
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