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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred de Vigny

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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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