England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.


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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
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Is reall...
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She is nowhere near the monster everyone has made her out to be.
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the di...
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
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Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
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That will be a separate issue on which no decision has been made.
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...she made her home in between the pages of books.
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To the best of our knowledge no one has made any threats.
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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To love is to act.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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We are the children of our own deeds.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Popularity is glory's small change.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO