For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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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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