Quote by Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – 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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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isnt every war fought between men, between brothers? – Victor Hugo

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. – Victor Hugo

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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition. – Indira Gandhi

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they wont see how they really are. – Aldous Huxley

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Im actually living my life with the material I choose to work with. – Ang Lee

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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. – Charles Kingsley

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternitys sunrise. – William Blake

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