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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

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Happiness
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Maurice Maeterlinck
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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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Maurice Maeterlinck
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Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We dont necessarily know how to obtain happiness. – Gregg Easterbrook

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Happiness

True happiness involves the full use of ones power and talents. – John W. Gardner

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Happiness

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Happiness

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. – Alphonse Karr

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Happiness

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Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives. – Edwin Louis Cole

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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war. – Arthur Henderson

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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. – Harlan Coben

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Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. – Kenneth Clarke

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