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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so. Their gratitude is the reward of their own benefits.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
It would seem that by our sorrows only we are called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
“Prayer,” says St. Jerome, “is a groan.” Ah! our groans are prayers as well. The very cry of distress is an involuntary appeal to that invisible Power whose aid the soul invokes.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The smile upon the old man’s lip, like the last rays of the setting sun, pierces the heart with a sweet and sad emotion. There is still a ray, there is still a smile; but they may be the last.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Feeling loves a subdued light.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Piety softens all that courage bears.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Prayer has a right to the word “ineffable.” It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,—of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
We forgive too little, forget too much.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas’ thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Everybody has enemies. To have an enemy is quite another thing. One must be somebody in order to have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
I love victory, but I love not triumph.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. We owe our superfluity, and to be happy in the performance of our duty we must exceed it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There are two ways of attaining an important end—force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Conscience is, at once, the sweetest and most troublesome of guests. It is the voice which demanded Abel of his brother, or that celestial harmony which vibrated in the ears of the martyrs, and soothed their sufferings.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)