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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Alexandre Dumas

Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
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
You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt
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
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
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
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Education Finish Oneself Work
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Difficult Lying Value
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Man Promise Rare Threat Woman
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Death Lose Love Strength Strong

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