Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by that chaste, upright, inflexible and candid nature.
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Related Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, the... VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,... VICTOR HUGO Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo JEAN COCTEAU One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e... DIOGENES LAERTIUS He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had... VICTOR HUGO He was fully aware that he was legally married. She didn't know about it in the first place. ANGELO VAUGHN Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He w... MICHAEL MCDOWELL Such is the nature of compassionate being that, even when he knows that someone has made Facebook ac... DR HITESH C SHETH It was possible, wasn't it, that he loved her, and that in this time of terrifying opportunity he wa... ORSON SCOTT CARD He coached me in AAU basketball as a kid. He missed maybe one of my games that I can think of. He wa... BRIAN BRENNAN Brahma is said to have produced the world by a kind of fall or mistake; and in order to atone for hi... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in contr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Being aware that he had but a short time to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in immo... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Man cannot be 'the measure of all things'; for he himself was not aware when he came into being. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he ha... STEFAN ZWEIG The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew ... CHARLES PERRAULT Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconcili... JOHN WESLEY Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconci... JOHN WESLEY I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ... AUGUST WILSON No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i... WILLIAM FAULKNER He had his dose of war in Korea. He thought that by joining the Air Force it would allow him to stay... JAY STEINDL Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that o... LEO TOLSTOY Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without h... PAUL HENRI THIRY D'HOLBACH From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see... ALFRED DE VIGNY We needed superhuman goaltending and he certainly gave it to us. You're not going to win games as th... DAVE BURKHOLDER Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or... PIERS ANTHONY He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt... STEFAN ZWEIG Victor wouldn't be Victor if he told you what was in it. He assured me no steroid was involved. TIM MONTGOMERY He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps ... LAINI TAYLOR The need of theory is supported by the eros of the philosopher. It is not the expression of his will... HEINRICH MEIER Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre... BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke, that he does not beli... BLAISE PASCAL Victor was just so much stronger than him and put on pressure till the end. He looked good. He was v... IGOR GOLOUBEV Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a membe... TOM SHALES 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-br... CHARLES DICKENS He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, ... MICHAEL ENDE A man's faith can go down to zero without being shaken by doubt HENRI DE LUBAC Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 Here you have the... WILLIAM LAW He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who ligh... THOMAS JEFFERSON The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lull... ROBERT GALBRAITH He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great d... NORBERT JACQUES Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one c... VIKTOR FRANKL Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only ... ALFRED BESTER Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature tha... JOSEPH DE MAISTRE For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the v... GUSTAV STRESEMANN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD He got it in his system that he wanted to help people, and he would do it. If you needed anything, h... PATRICK CORCORAN Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one c... VIKTOR E. FRANKL He loved the game of golf and dedicated himself to it. He was a kid at heart and that's why the kids... JAY MILLER Rob was fireman all the way. He lived it, he ate it, he breathed it and unfortunately he died it, bu... JIM HODGES He was in the air most of the time ... on the air, in the air, one way or the other. It was his thin... PHYLLIS DILLER It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo... HENRY JAMES He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin. PERIANDER OF CORINTH He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. Th... LEIGH BARDUGO There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural ... ALFRED ADLER I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, ... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, ... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d... JAMES MAXEY No! No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and ... SøREN KIERKEGAARD For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mou... JENS PETER JACOBSEN We knew they were going to wheel it over in his direction. We were yelling at him from the sidelines... DOUG JOHNSON Smith stated that he was a 'pig,' that all the drugs were for himself and that he was aware of the p... FRANK LOMBARDO He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood ... AYN RAND In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness SOROOSH SHAHRIVAR It was a groundbreaking work in that he basically, in this culture, in this day and age, showed that... KEN HAM Hugo is my family now. I've always had Great Danes, but Hugo is the most loving dog I've ever had. W... ANNA LEE I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ... VICTOR HUGO The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would... VICTOR HUGO Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy... JAMES ALLEN He did not himself believe in the supernatural, but the thing happened, and he proposed to tell it a... T.H. WHITE He stepped fully into the house. The air inside was cool on his skin. He turned, expecting the front... ROBERT LIPARULO He wrestled with it the rest of the year, but there was a point where he wanted to quit. I was talki... CHAD POWELL There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ... ALFRED ADLER There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ... ALFRED ADLER Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt... SAMUEL JOHNSON Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His m... GEORGE WASHINGTON Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adv... ELLEN G. WHITE The reason of this separation has not come to our knowledge; but there seems to be a truth conveyed ... PLUTARCH He just loved it — that was his favorite thing, doing the calculations himself. ALICE RIVLIN He loved (radio personalities) Bob and Tom, he loved his truck, he loved racing and he loved being w... JIM O'HARA The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienat... CARL GUSTAV JUNG It just showed me the type of person he is, that he was glad that he was here and whatever he could ... BARRY ALVAREZ No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. VIKTOR E. FRANKL Victor was the planner. He loved doing stick-ups. He was the one who would do all the planning and t... WENDY PEIRCE Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 The basis of our Lord's appeal was ... JOHN HUXTABLE In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm. RENE SULLY-PRUDHOMME This world is a joke, and I'm in it OLIWAH GOUDEE Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz... BILL LASWELL He was not a kook surfer who was way out of his league. Without a doubt in my mind, it was definitel... DAN WATTS Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 He has loved us without being loved... We are b... CATHERINE OF SIENA The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work:... EILEEN CADDY My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It was... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN He is 100 percent ahead of where he was last year. He just doesn't get tired. He does a lot of thing... BOB STOLL He loved teaching, whether it was football or academically. He was always laughing and telling jokes... STEVE DALE And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disap... NIKOLAI GOGOL No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. A. A. MILNE
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A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
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(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
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Shall others continue, but never complete.
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