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Quotes from Meditations of a Parish Priest — Joseph Roux

d. 1905 France

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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

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