What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
("Les Miserables")
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.Victor Hugo
I feel within me the future life. I am like a forest that has been razed the new shoots are stronger and brisker. I shall most certainly rise toward the heavens. The suns rays bathe my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but the heavens illuminat.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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