Victor Hugo Quotes, Prayer Quotes

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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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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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

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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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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

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