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"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his hea...  
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.  
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.  
A library implies an act of faith.  
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visibl...  
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate...  
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.  
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time ...  
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.  
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has ...  
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only ...  
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.  
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship ...  
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath ...  
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slig...  
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.  
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the ...  
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every ...  
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Righ...  
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.  
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.  
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dr...  
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.  
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.  
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.   Age
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.  
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity...  
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come...  
Habit is the nursery of errors.  
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ...  
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty...  
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.   Education
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows t...  
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made ...  
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.  
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen th...  
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not on...  
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the st...  
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was...  
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.  
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.  
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles o...  
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for ...  
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.  
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.  
Liberation is not deliverance.  
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.   Love
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two f...  
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrecti...  
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossibl...   Music
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.  
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided th...  
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.  
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as a...  
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invas...  
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and inv...  
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.  
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves abo...  
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.  
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over...  
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to anti...  
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldne...  
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; lo...  
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develo...  
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; lov...  
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfat...  
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever...  
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire ...  
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people ...  
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.  
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that...  
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.  
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled ou...  
To love another person is to see the face of God.  
To love beauty is to see light.  
To think of shadows is a serious thing.  
Toleration is the best religion.  
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human...  
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are amo...  
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of min...  
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.  
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspea...   Age
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, ...  
Wisdom is a sacred communion.  
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-r...