A human life is a story told by God.

H.C. Andersen

Human Life Story God

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Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.

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Near Go Wonderful Things

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Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;

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Grant Prayers Contrary Times

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Push it myself.

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Push Next Wealth Delightful

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There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

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King Son Nobody Many

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He reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first

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Poor Cottage Seemed Ready

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The heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible

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Heart See Clearly Essential

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo

Echo Future History Past

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Armies Come Idea Invasion

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Age Fifty Forty Old

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

Victor Hugo

Adorable Age Dawn Grace

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Closes Door Opens Prison

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

Drives Face Human Sun

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No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I'm happy on the shel

Fats Waller

Talk Myself Happy

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If you've got to take it. Take it easy. Never hurry to a date. Eat your supper; let 'em wait.

Fats Waller

Take-it Easy Hurry Date

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If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it

Fats Waller

You Know Mess

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I love you, yes I do, I love you. If you break my heart I'll die. So be sure it's true when you say I love you It's a sin to tell a lie.

Fats Waller

Love You Break Heart

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Be sure it's true when you say I love you. It's a sin to tell a lie. Millions of heart have been broken. Just because these words were spoken.

Fats Waller

Sure Love Millions Heart

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This heart of mine could never see what everybody knew but me

Fats Waller

Heart See What Me

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

Attitude Body Certain Knees

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

Victor Hugo

Brow Every God Hope

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

Victor Hugo

Silent Cannot Expresses Music

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Victor Hugo

Peace Sleep Daily Task

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

Labor Invisible Absorb Idle

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

Becomes Dictatorship Fact Revolution

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Victor Hugo

Always Doctor Even Indeed

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

Victor Hugo

Adore Children Does Fathers

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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Victor Hugo

Ugly Reply Image Deity

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

Bitter Cause Indicate Strong

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Victor Hugo

Before Long Man Mind

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Victor Hugo

Armies Come Idea Time

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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Victor Hugo

Wings Hath Sings Feels

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Spite Loved Rather Life

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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

Paradise Stupid Better Hell

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

Victor Hugo

Armies Come Else Idea

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo

Create Dream Future Like

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

Army Cannot Ideas Invasion

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

Believes Faith Woe Man

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Victor Hugo

Book Vast Page Human

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Victor Hugo

Harm Done Fashions More

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Habit is the nursery of errors.

Victor Hugo

Errors Habit Nursery

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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo

Congress Does Frighten Horses

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Victor Hugo

Beauty Light Love See

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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Victor Hugo

Serious Shadows Thing Think

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

Victor Hugo

Cannot Eternal Heart Human

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

Communion Sacred Wisdom

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Victor Hugo

Filled Heart Purse

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

Victor Hugo

Every Fire Learn Light

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Toleration is the best religion.

Victor Hugo

Best Religion Toleration

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Victor Hugo

Charged Enforcing God Morality

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4391 Novelist Quotes

A human life is a story told by God.

H.C. Andersen

Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.

H.C. Andersen

Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;

H.C. Andersen

Push it myself.

H.C. Andersen

There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

H.C. Andersen

He reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first

H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I'm happy on the shel

Fats Waller

If you've got to take it. Take it easy. Never hurry to a date. Eat your supper; let 'em wait.

Fats Waller

Fats Waller

I love you, yes I do, I love you. If you break my heart I'll die. So be sure it's true when you say I love you It's a sin to tell a lie.

Fats Waller

Be sure it's true when you say I love you. It's a sin to tell a lie. Millions of heart have been broken. Just because these words were spoken.

Fats Waller

This heart of mine could never see what everybody knew but me

Fats Waller

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Victor Hugo

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Victor Hugo

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Victor Hugo