We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWe must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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.
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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