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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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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Fool that I am, said he,that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself.
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Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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Hatred is blind rage carries you away and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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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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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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That is a dream also only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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