Best Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck (Top 10)
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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
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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.
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More Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
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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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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...
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Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
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