Philibert Joseph Roux Quotes

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• When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

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  Happiness, Doubt, Unhappy

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• God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

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  God, Home

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• Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

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  Evil, Triumph, Conquer

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• In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

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  Grief, Tears, Age

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• Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

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  Emotional, Feelings, Emotion

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• Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

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  Expression, Poetry, Impression

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• I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Thinking

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• Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

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  Friends, Reality, Remains

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• We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

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  Heart, Too Much, Reason

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

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  Taken, Meditation

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., (Part 5, XXII), 1886.

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

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  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

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• Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

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  Men, Duty

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• Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

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  Modesty, Exquisite

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• Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

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  Spring, Heart, Tears

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• What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

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  Doors, Judging, Guilty

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• There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

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  Heart, People, Laughing

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

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  Forgiveness, Might, Pardon

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Philibert Joseph Roux, Part 1, LXXI, 1866.

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• 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.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Father

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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• Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

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  Art, Business, Literature

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• Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

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  Enthusiasm

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• Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

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  Experience, Illusion, Lost

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• Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

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  Educational, Teach, Understood

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• Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

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  Stupid, Criticism, Taste

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• We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

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  Conscious, Concern, Persons

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• There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

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  Patience, Affair, Slowness

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