Philibert Joseph Roux Quotes - Page 3

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• Success causes us to be more praised than known.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Success, Achievement, Causes

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• Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Prayer, Trying, Comfort

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• The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Prayer, Writing, Voice

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• That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Imagination, Littles

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• A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.

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  Powerful, Heart, Sun

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• Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

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  Generosity, Wealth, Charitable

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• The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, Air, Proportion

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• Great souls are harmonious.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Life, Soul, Harmonious

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• The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Morning, Flower, Tears

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• God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  God, Grief, Heart

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• History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Historical, Age

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• The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friends, Men, Ungrateful

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• The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Ambitious, Becoming

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• Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friends, Men, Common

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• 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.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Distance, Order, Ideas

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 4, XCIX, 1886.

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• As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

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  Heart, Long, Mind

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• We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Justice, Littles

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• We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Regret, Experience, Pleasure

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• Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

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  Sad, Order, Interesting

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• Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Orange Trees, Desire, Fruit

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

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  Men, Succeed, Talent

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• When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Running, Risk, Prejudice

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• Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

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  Selfish, Past, Sorrow

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• Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

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  Writing, Sunday, Clothes

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• The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

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  Ego, Doe, Tolerate

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