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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. "

Victor Hugo

Plan

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Day

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" One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' "

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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. "

" 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

Beautiful

" Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. "

" Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. "

" When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. "

" The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. "

" Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. "

" I'm religiously opposed to religion. "

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Opposed

Religion

" Life is the flower for which love is the honey. "

" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "

" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "

" A great artist is a great man in a great child. "

" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "

" Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. "

" One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. "

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Distance

Defects

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

" A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. "

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Compliment

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

" Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? "

" To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. "