Quote by Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is t

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots. – Victor Hugo

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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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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. – Henry George

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If we divine a discrepancy between a mans words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. – Charles Horton Cooley

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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. – William Morris

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Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith. – Paul Brunton

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Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. – Nelson DeMille

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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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The good is the beautiful. – Plato

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