When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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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
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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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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