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.
VICTOR HUGOLet us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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