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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.

Alexandre Dumas

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
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
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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Appearance Darkness Illumination Sun Yourself
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Blessing Goodness Gratitude Happiness Heart Myself
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
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
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
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
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
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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Character Count Death Life Moments Reality Reflection Visage
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing

Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.

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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.

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