Jean de La Fontaine on grace
Jean de La Fontaine147 quotes“Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.”
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine People who make no noise are dangerous.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Sensible people find nothing useless.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine I bend and do not break.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine We ought to consider the end in everything.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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