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So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.

But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions.
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Topic: Religion
Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends toward the solution. Some day, people will be amazed. As the human race ascends, the deepest layers will naturally emerge from the zone of distress. The effacement of wretchedness will be effected by a simple elevation level.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Education
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.
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Topic: Inspirational
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Inspirational
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Religion
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Philosophical
Sin is a gravitation.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Be happy without picking flaws.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Happiness
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Hope
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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Topic: Inspirational
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Topic: Inspirational
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 people who have touched their lives.
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Topic: Happiness
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:

"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you."

She essayed to smile again and expired.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Death
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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Topic: Other
Those who do not weep, do not see.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Inspirational
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Happiness
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 bright sunshine.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Happiness
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Hope
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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Topic: Hope
I see black light (his last words)
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Topic: Death
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Topic: Education
À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...]
Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Education
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Inspirational
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Death
So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.

But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends toward the solution. Some day, people will be amazed. As the human race ascends, the deepest layers will naturally emerge from the zone of distress. The effacement of wretchedness will be effected by a simple elevation level.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
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.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Sin is a gravitation.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Be happy without picking flaws.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
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 people who have touched their lives.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:

"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you."

She essayed to smile again and expired.
From Les Misérables
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Topic: Death
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Other
Those who do not weep, do not see.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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 bright sunshine.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I see black light (his last words)
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...]
Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.

But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends toward the solution. Some day, people will be amazed. As the human race ascends, the deepest layers will naturally emerge from the zone of distress. The effacement of wretchedness will be effected by a simple elevation level.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
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.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Sin is a gravitation.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Be happy without picking flaws.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
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 people who have touched their lives.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:

"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you."

She essayed to smile again and expired.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Other
Those who do not weep, do not see.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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 bright sunshine.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I see black light (his last words)
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...]
Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
From Les Misérables
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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