Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Victor Hugo
No army can withstand the strength of an…
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Nothing else in the world…not all the …
Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed….
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.
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People do not lack strength, they lack w…
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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Popularity It is glory’s small change….
Popularity It is glory’s small change.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thou…
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation.
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Should we continue to look upwards Is th…
Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)
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So different are the colours of life, as…
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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The first symptom of love in a young man…
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Victor Hugo