“My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.”
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus (The Vicomte de Bragelonne) (1847)
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Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
Variant: The human heart... tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
Source: The Complete Collected Poems
“God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.”

Source: Insecure at Last

Source: (1940), VIII

Variant: Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.