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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHe who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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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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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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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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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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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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