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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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