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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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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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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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

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The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

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First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it’s not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you’ve forgotten, d...more

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Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night!

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

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Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

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At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philos...more

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From Les Miserables:All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the o...more

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To love beauty is to see light.

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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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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. Few people dare now to say that two beings have ...more