"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees."

Hugo, Victor on prayer
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"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Hugo, Victor on power
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"Loving is half of believing."

Hugo, Victor on belief
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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

Hugo, Victor on books - reading
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"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."

Hugo, Victor on thoughts and thinking
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."

Hugo, Victor on animals
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor."

Hugo, Victor on idleness
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"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on dissent
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"Romances I never read like those I have seen."

Byron, Lord on fiction
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"History is the devil's scripture."

Byron, Lord on history and historians
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"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."

Byron, Lord on animals
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"Think not I am what I appear."

Byron, Lord on appearance
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"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."

Byron, Lord on women
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"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Hugo, Victor on happiness
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"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant."

Byron, Lord on women
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on reality
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"Build a dream and the dream will build you."

Schuller, Robert H. on dream
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"I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,"

Barnard, Charlotte on past
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"I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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