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 DUMASOh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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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