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Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back. There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own. We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world. The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood. To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels. Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better. To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future? To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor. If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life. Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others. It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase. The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful. And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: The living are just the dead on holiday The living are just the dead on holiday
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. 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 quotes: At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Bees will not work except in darkness;Thought will not work except in Silence;neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy. Bees will not work except in darkness;
Thought will not work except in Silence;
neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? 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 quotes: He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing. It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death. It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom. It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: I am moved by the light. I am moved by the light.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God. We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: We possess only the happiness we able to understand. We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two. The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness. Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: I count only the hours that are serene. I count only the hours that are serene.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it. Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: To learn to love, one must first learn to see. To learn to love, one must first learn to see.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal. The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne. Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more. But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures. A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Maurice Maeterlinck quotes: Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention. Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

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