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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. -

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo

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God
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Victor Hugo
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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. – Victor Hugo

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Wise Words
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Victor Hugo
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. – Victor Hugo

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Guilt
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. – Giraldus Cambrensis

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Happiness

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

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Happiness

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. – Epictetus

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Happiness

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. – Andre Gide

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Happiness

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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. – Ambrose Bierce

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Patriotism

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. – Thomas Menino

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Leadership

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. – Alan Cohen

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Change

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. – Newt Gingrich

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Government