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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.

Alexandre Dumas

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Doubt Enemy Man Person Rank
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
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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Afraid Alcohol Bad Fear Heart Thinking Worst
Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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Believe Final God Himself Lesson Revenge Sentence
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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Character Count Death Life Moments Reality Reflection Visage
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound
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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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
Haste is a poor counselor.
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Counseling Haste Poor
As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Advice Blame General Order People Rule
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness

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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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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