Quote by Victor Hugo
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diam

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. – Victor Hugo

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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. – Victor Hugo

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God
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo

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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. – Giacomo Casanova

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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott

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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy. – Hamlin Garland

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Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. – Michael Faraday

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Thats the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. – John Madden

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