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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.

Alexandre Dumas

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
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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Drought Fall Ground Heart Suffering
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
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
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
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Heart Kind Myself
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Comparison Dreams Forever Imagination Life Oneself Reality Sorrow
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Mad Man Right Togetherness
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
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
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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Black Cloud Horizon Mindset See Sky Weakness Yourself
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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Choice Head Heart Ideas
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
Haste is a poor counselor.
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Counseling Haste Poor

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