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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLife 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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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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