It is only the dead who do not return.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBe 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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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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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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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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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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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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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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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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