To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

When liberty returns, I will return.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time...

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time...

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body,...

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body,...

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible...

Yes, God made man first, but there's always a rough draft before the final copy.

Yes, God made man first, but there's always a rough draft before the final copy.

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater...

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater...

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that...

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that...

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be...

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be...

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery...

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery...

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but...

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but...

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.