A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo Quotations
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
Popularity It is glory's small change.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.