Pierre-Jean de Beranger Quotes

• Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Tears, Glory, Shoulders

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• Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Pedestal, Fame, Statues

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• What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Men, Ideas, Differences

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• When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolerant towards her. Believers, who believe something else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Believe, Character, Political

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• Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Wine, Flow, Universe

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• Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Kindness, Heart, Paradise

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• Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Children, Pain, Fall

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• Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Romantic, Goodnight, Good Night

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• A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Men, Society, Coats

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• Our century is a brutal thinker.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Century, Brutal, Thinker

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• Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  War, Arms, France

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• Our friends, the enemy.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Enemy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 221-22, 1922.

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