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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Earnestness
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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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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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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