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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

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Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

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

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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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Conscience is God present in man.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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