Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the...

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the...

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Popularity? It is glory's small change

To love another person is to see the face of God.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights...

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights...

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and...

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

Life is a voyage.

Life is a voyage.

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

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

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

To love beauty is to see light.

To love beauty is to see light.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming...

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming...

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ;...

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ;...