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7 Quotes for 'Maurice Maeterlinck' in the Database.
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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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I count only the hours that are serene.
[Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]
Topic: Sun Dial Mottoes
Source: Measure of the Hours, mentioned as found by Hazlitt on a sun dial near Venice
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The hour of justice does not strike
On the dials of this world.
[Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas
Aux cadrans de ce monde.]
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,
Topic: Sun Dial Mottoes
Source: Measure of the Hours, motto on a sun dial on a church at Tourette-sur-Loup
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I am moved by the light.
[Lat., A lumine motus.]
Topic: Sun Dial Mottoes
Source: Measure of the Hours--Motto
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Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed;
Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;
Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore,
The flying shadow will return no more.
Topic: Sun Dial Mottoes
Source: Measure of the Hours--Motto
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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.
Topic: Tears
Source: None
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Topic: Value
Source: None
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