Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.Maurice Maeterlinck
Brave old-flowers Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.
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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
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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
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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