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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4583)

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Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material.
Victor Hugo
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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