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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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.
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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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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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 this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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