A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
VICTOR HUGOA garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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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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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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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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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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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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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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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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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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