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.
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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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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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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To 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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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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.
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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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