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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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There are things stronger than the strongest man.

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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

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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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