1 To dare; that is the price of progress.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN 2 Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 3 An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN 4 Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 5 Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 6 As they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; it is a whole solar system on the march.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 7 Both were susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress which is accomplished in the direction of evil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 8 I have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 9 If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? 10 This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken ended.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 11 To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 12 Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become favorable to it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 13 There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 14 , the names of all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is visible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 15 For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two forces which are their two motors: faith and love.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 16 Nevertheless, at certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this moment, astonishing the civilized world.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 17 Let there be no mistake as to our meaning: we are not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous intellect.
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