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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

Alexandre Dumas

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
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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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Heart Kind Myself
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
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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Act Agony Father Humanity Man Save Spare
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
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
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
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Comparison Dreams Forever Imagination Life Oneself Reality Sorrow

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