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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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