Quote by Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the sm

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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Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. – Victor Hugo

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. – Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

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Whatever you are, try to be a good one. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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