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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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