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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Topic: Argument
Source: None
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
Topic: Birds
Source: I Was Always a Lover
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
Topic: Clouds
Source: The Vanished City
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Topic: Common Sense
Source: None
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
Topic: Country
Source: None
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Topic: Dreams
Source: Early Love Revisited
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King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close tread,
The eagle of the Alps.
Topic: Eagles
Source: Swiss Mercenaries
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Topic: Errors
Source: La Legende des Siecles
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You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.
Topic: Future
Source: To His Orphan Grandchildren
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.
Topic: Happiness
Source: None
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Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,--
A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
The angel for the woman in a kiss,
At once I wis,
My soul will wake!
Topic: Kisses
Source: Come When I Sleep
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Topic: Laughter
Source: None
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Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.
Topic: Light
Source: La Legende des Siecles
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,
Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars
Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer
Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,
Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.
Topic: Moon
Source: Boaz Asleep
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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Popularity is glory's small change.
Topic: Popularity
Source: None
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To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
Topic: Reform
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind,
Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
Topic: Ruin
Source: The Vanished City
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)
Topic: Sight
Source: Eviradnus (IX)
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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.
Topic: Sleep
Source: None
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
Topic: Thinking
Source: None
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: The Vanished City
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Topic: Waste
Source: None
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Topic: Will
Source: None
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Madame, bear in mind
That princes govern all things--save the wind.
Topic: Wind
Source: The Infanta's Rose
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