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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

Alexandre Dumas

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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God Himself Life Man Order Save
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
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
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Mad Man Right Togetherness
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
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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Beginning Deliver Exhausted God
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Attack Country Defend Fear Heart Liberty Man Place
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
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
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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Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal
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
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness

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