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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.

Alexandre Dumas

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
Order is the key to all problems.
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Key One Liner Order Problem
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Difficult Person Position
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Friendship Life Man Moments Storm Young Yourself
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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Explanation God Happiness Himself Language Man Prayer Talk
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
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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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Fools Heart Myself Revenge Tears
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Difficult Escape Moments Planning Pleasure
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
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

Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.

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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.

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