Victor Hugo Quotes
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
Quotes to Explore
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
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When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
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And as for you, stop having curly hair!
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
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Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that
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If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.
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The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.
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England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.
