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 DUMASSo he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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