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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

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It is often our best friends who throw us down.

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Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

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

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

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

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Are you afraid of the good you might do?

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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