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Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
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To know how not to know might well be the last word of wisdom.
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The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
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The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
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He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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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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It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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The infinite which our imagination seeks to embrace is nothing more than the indefinite.
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Scientifically, Nature is a riddle without a definite solution to satisfy man's curiosity.
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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed 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 have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?
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It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself.
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Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
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The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
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Hypothesis follows on hypothesis; the theoretical rubbish-heap accumulates; and truth ever eludes us.
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He's not quite blue yet, but that will come, you shall see! … Take him off quick to your little girl...
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Because I have stirred a few grains of sand on the shore, am I in a position to know the depths of the ocean?
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It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
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Don't be alarmed … They are a little annoyed because Spring is late... Leave it to me; I will settle it all.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
August 29, 1862
Died:
May 6, 1949
(aged 86)
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