In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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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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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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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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Haste is a poor counselor.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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