Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Quote by Victor Hugo
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
- I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
- What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
- 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.
- Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
- Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
- The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
- There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
- 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. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
- We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
- What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Best Quotes
- I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
- The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
- Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
- I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
- Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
- They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.