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

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Dogs
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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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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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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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Happiness

Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. – Terri Guillemets

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Happiness

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Happiness

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. – Alfred de Musset

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Happiness

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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. – William Allen White

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Miscellaneous

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. – Lucille Ball

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Knowledge

Sisterhood is powerful. – Robin Morgan

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Sisters

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. – Joshua Lederberg

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Science