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Travel Writer Inspirational Quotes (1816)

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The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
Bill Bryson
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Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.
Freya Stark
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
Freya Stark
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor Hugo
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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