I will leave the explanation for you; however, I think it’s self-explanatory. How many times will President Bush or celebrities like Oprah Winfrey have to live with what has been written vs. what they have actually said or done in their lives?

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

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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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

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

Popularity? It is glory’s small change.

Victor Hugo

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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Victor Hugo

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo, ‘Histoire d’un crime,’ 1852

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If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights.

Victor Hugo, ‘Les Malheureux’

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To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables,’ 1862

He who abandons the field is beaten.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

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There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris

Do you know what friendship is… it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

It means that someone who can not overcome the worse can not know the meaning of true freedom.