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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.

Alexandre Dumas

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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Choice Head Heart Ideas
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.
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Appearance Darkness Illumination Sun Yourself
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Application Philosophy Science Teaching Truth
You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
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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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Bliss Capability Despair Man Ultimate
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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Knowledge Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy Understanding
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Beautiful History Offspring Rape
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Believe God Himself Yourself
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
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.
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Beside Happiness Pass Recognition
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Holy Instagram Captions Love Sacred Woman
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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Afraid Alcohol Bad Fear Heart Thinking Worst
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Death Lose Love Strength Strong
Order is the key to all problems.
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Key One Liner Order Problem
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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Black Cloud Horizon Mindset See Sky Weakness Yourself

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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