"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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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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"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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"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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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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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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