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Labor is life thought is light.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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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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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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Right is right only when entire.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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