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“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Are you afraid of the good you might do?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. ”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The same sun shines upon mud that shines upon wax. It hardens the mud but softens the wax. The difference is not in the sun, but in that upon which it shines. The Divine Life which shines upon a soul that loves Him, softens it into everlasting life; that same Divine Life which shines upon the slothful soul, neglectful of God, hardens it into everlasting death.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Seven Capital Sins

“The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living