Bernard-Joseph Saurin famous quotes

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Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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The law often permits what honor prohibits.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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Valor is common but great souls are rare.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

#Pain #Night #Long

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
Delay not to seize the hour!
How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

Bernard-Joseph Saurin famous quotes

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