Victor Hugo Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Ocean Quotes

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

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

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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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A wedding is not house-keeping.

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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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

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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

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