Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

- Victor Hugo

Love

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

New Beginnings

"What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul."

- Victor Hugo

Love

"Intoxications of life's morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories?"

- Victor Hugo

Nature

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

- Victor Hugo

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- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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