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Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward com

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. – Maurice Maeterlinck

Other quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Death
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Past
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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I see happiness as a by-product. I dont think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. – James Hillman

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Happiness

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. – Charles L. Morgan

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Happiness

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

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Happiness

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. – Matthew Arnold

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Happiness

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Jealousy… is a mental cancer. – B.C. Forbes

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Jealousy

*Poof!* And just like that, there are now 3 fewer chocolate caramels in the world. – Dr.SunWolf, 2014 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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Chocolate

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. – Ogden Nash

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Retirement

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. – John W. Gardner

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Education