It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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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.Maurice Maeterlinck
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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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.
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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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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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