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" Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. "
Victor Hugo
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" One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. "
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" What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! "
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" What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. "
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" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "
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" Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. "
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" Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. "
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" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "
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Forward
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" There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. "
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" Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. "
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" The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. "
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" Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. "
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Nor
True
" It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. "
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Just
Like
Pleasant
" Habit is the nursery of errors. "
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Nursery
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" He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. "
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Day
" Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. "
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Stars
Light
" Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. "
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Mighty
Come
Whose
" Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. "
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Great
Seems
Man
" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "
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Right
Revolution
" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "
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" The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. "
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Ignorant
He
Aware
" An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. "
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Come
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" As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. "
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Heart
Filled
Purse
" To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. "
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Read
Spark
Out
" To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. "
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Always
God
Striving
" To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. "
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Go
Solitude
Thanksgiving
" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "
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Sense
Result
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" Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "
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Powerful
World
Time
" To contemplate is to look at shadows. "
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