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" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "
Victor Hugo
Clock
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" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "
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" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "
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" Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. "
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" The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. "
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" What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. "
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" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "
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" It is by suffering that human beings become angels. "
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" Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! "
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" Taste is the common sense of genius. "
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" When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. "
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" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "
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" Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. "
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" I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "
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" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "
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Soul
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" Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. "
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" There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. "
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General
Nature
" There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. "
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" Habit is the nursery of errors. "
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" Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. "
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" I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. "
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Put
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" Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. "
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" Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. "
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" Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. "
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