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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.

Alexandre Dumas

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Life Live Love Novel People Story
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
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
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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Attack Country Defend Fear Heart Liberty Man Place
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
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
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
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Application Philosophy Science Teaching Truth
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Awkward Custom Fashion Future Law
Haste is a poor counselor.
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Counseling Haste Poor
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Laughter Myself Please Privilege

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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