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Joseph Roux
French
Clergyman
About the author
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Nothing
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.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Wife
#Peace
#Man
#Friend
#Language
#Losing
#Name
#Father
#Unhappiness
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Science
#Poetry
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Happiness
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Folly
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Isolation
#Solitude
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#People
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Will
#Nothing
#Word
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Experience
#Wisdom
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Man
#Succeed
#Talent
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Nothing
#Emotions
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Experience
#Wisdom
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Expression
#Poetry
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Truth
#Poetry
#Clothes
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Feeling
#Reason
#Man
#Rest
#Passion
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux,
French
Clergyman
#Man
#Wit
#Fool
#Quotation