Victor Hugo

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at read more

King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close tread,
The eagle of the Alps.