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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWait and hope!
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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.
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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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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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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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God is always the last resource.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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