A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

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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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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 in Wisdom and Destiny (1898)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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