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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most b...more

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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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...more

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of peo...more

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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I ...more

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and br...more

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Be happy without picking flaws.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a lamp in the middle of the starry nig...more

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Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the...more

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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'Valjean, who did not recall having made ...more