Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. - Philibert Joseph Roux - Quotesmemo.com

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Philibert Joseph Roux

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

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Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

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

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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.

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We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

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