For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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