For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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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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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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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Wait and hope!
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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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 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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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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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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