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| There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman | | Uncategorized | |
| There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height | | Greatness | |
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| There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul | | Uncategorized | |
| There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. | | Uncategorized | |
| Those who live are those who fight. | | Living | |
| Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. | | Thought | |
| To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. | | Reading | |
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| To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother | | Uncategorized | |
| To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization. | | Uncategorized | |
| To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time | | Uncategorized | |
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| Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. | | Uncategorized | |
| Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second | | Uncategorized | |
