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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.

Alexandre Dumas

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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Appearance Future Horizon Mindset Promise Way Weakness
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Belief Faith God Himself Hope Misery
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Children Education Intelligence Man Stupidity
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Education Finish Oneself Work
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Blessing Goodness Gratitude Happiness Heart Myself
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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Intoxicate Mindset Please Poet Woman
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Believe God Himself Yourself
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Dragon Fight Guard Happiness Order Palace
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Exit Love Suspicious Togetherness
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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God Himself Kill Life Live Man
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Book Myself Paper Sword
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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Drought Fall Ground Heart Suffering
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion

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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