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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

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