There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in...

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in...

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of...

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of...

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of...

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of...

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the...

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the...

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those...

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those...

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.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does...

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does...

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good...

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good...

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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...

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown...

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown...

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage...

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage...

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is...

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is...

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is...

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is...