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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

Alexandre Dumas

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
We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Gratitude Money Obligation Quit
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
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
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
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
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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God Himself Life Man Order Save
Order is the key to all problems.
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Key One Liner Order Problem
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
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
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
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
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
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource
Haste is a poor counselor.
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Counseling Haste Poor
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Dangerous Love Point Wasted Time Writing
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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Forever Life Remember Storm Willing
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
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
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

Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

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