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Travel Writer Inspirational Quotes (1816)

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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