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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTell 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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God is always the last resource.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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