Victor Hugo Quotes, Hero Quotes, Eye Quotes

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

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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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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

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It is often our best friends who throw us down.

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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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